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GRUESOME HARVEST The Costly Attempt To Exterminate The People of Germany By Ralph Franklin Keeling This book is dedicated to those people in all
lands who are ruled primarily by reason, rather
than emotion; who think consistently in terms of
principle, rather than prejudice; who try to see
events now the way they will be viewed a generation
hence by sober historians; who try to identify the
present distortion in public sentiment and
understanding caused by total war and propaganda;
who are willing to appraise the problems of peace
in terms of national, rather than presumed personal
self-interest; who do not ask others to follow
rules and standards which they would not accept for
themselves; who believe in equality before the law
for whole peoples as for individuals; who recognize
the injustice of condoning an act committed by one
country while condemning the same act committed by
another; who can see that an a priori
picking of sides and choosing of favorites among
nations without regard to their conduct is a
repugnant form of racial or national
discrimination; who strive for better human
relations by helping overcome chauvinism,
ethno-centrism, and persecution on any account; who
respect human dignity and fundamental human rights;
who have democratic faith in the simple honesty and
soundness of the broad masses of people in all
countries; who therefore believe that the people of
no nation can be collectively condemned without
condemning human nature itself; who sympathize with
those millions of suffering, starving victims of
total war wherever they may be; who seek the peace,
prosperity, and happiness of all people, including
those who live in our America - and our former
enemies. |