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In the Driftway
October 19, 1918 issue

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A certain Federal Assistant Attorney-General, discussing the general question of civil liberties with a friend of the author last week, said: "I do not believe that the individual should have any civil rights whatever in time of war. I think the country would be better off if it were under martial law and run by a military administration." The author's friend replied that he had rarely heard a more Prussian point of view stated; whereat this official retorted: "Well, the Germans came pretty near winning the war with that point of view, didn't they?" This idea is not exceptional, of course; one hears it on all sides, particularly in official circles.

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CIVIL rights; WAR; MARTIAL law; DISCUSSION; MILITARY administration; GERMANS
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