"It's queer, when one thinks about it," goes on Kropp. "we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who's in the right? "Perhaps all," say I without believing it. "Yes, well now," pursues Albert, and I see that he means to drive me in to a corner, "but our professors and parsons and newspapers say that we are the only ones that are right, let's hope so;-- but the French professors and parsons and newspapers say that the right is on their side, now what about that?" "That I don't know," I say, "but whichever way it is there's war all the same and every month more countries coming in." Tjaden reappears. He is still quite excited and again joins the conversation, wonderng just how a war gets started. "Mostly one country badly offending another," answers Albert with a slight air of superiority. Then Tjaden pretends to be obstuse. "A c...