Primary tabs
Transcription
<p>[Page 100]</p><p>is not surprising given he has an English wife, who now lives in Switzerland. All the more ridiculous then that when in company, he toasts the others with the cry ‘Hiddekk’. Surely such a toast does not come from the heart and I’m convinced that he’ll be one of the first after the war to say to the English: let us be friends again. He also treats his young people very badly. Although he has a bank balance of a few hundred pounds, he has paid his employees only once £10 each since we’ve come to Australia. One of them recently asked him for a little financial help and he rudely rejected him, but then offered him a few tins of the government-supplied jam. This trait of his could make you sick!</p><p>30/8/17.<br />There has been a consequence of the Reichstag resolution after all, in as far as the Pope has sent a peace message to all war parties urging them to get together for a conference that would settle the hostilities. The central powers have signalled their readiness, but President Wilson has refused</p>