Saturday, April 20, 2019

Foster Young, Grade 10, Writes Essay on Germany's Debt to the World, April, 1919

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Saturday, April 19, 1919

Germany’s Debt to the World

By Foster Young, Grade 10

There is no way in which Germany is able or will be able to make full reparation for the evils inflicted upon the world. Germans have slain innocent women and children in cold blood. Germany has slain millions of men just for the desire of world dominion. No human beings are able to bring back these lives. No one is able to restore these brave lives, sacrificed for humanity’s sake, except God. Just think for a minute of the number of orphans the Germans have left homeless and destitute. Will Germany ever be able to ring mothers and fathers?

The financial experts of the Commission of Reparation say that Germany will be able to pay only $40 billion in any reasonable length of time, but if Germany were to pay a hundred times forty billion dollars, she would in no way make full reparation for the evils she has inflicted upon the world.

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