We appear to be at the beginning of a movement against the niinority who have made money out of the war by the majority-who have not. The theory of this majority scerne to be that, because the nation in general has suffered so severely during the war, no member of the community has any right to emerge from the war with any material advantage. We still hear a great many bitter reflexions about the "embusqués" who stayed at home and made money while their fellow citizens were undergoing untold hardships and giving their lives. They might just as well bemoan the existence of such qualities as personal initiative or such abuses as favouritism, or, for that matter, the imperfections of human nature.
Their discontent has been brought to a head by various stories of indiscreet behaviour by the objects of their aversion. For instance, we hear of parties of excursionists going to the Hartmannswillerkopf, the mountain for which French and Germans fought so bitterly for yenrs, and dancing on- the sacred ground to the music of a concertina—which is, of course, quite repre-sensible, but has nothing to do with the question whether M. Dupont or M. Durand, having seen an opportunity to make a good deal in cir cumstances created by the war, was or was not justified in making use of that opportunity to the advantage of his bank account.
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