Note 62 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal

Almost all works of national propaganda among the small nations of Eastern Europe are anthologies of poetry. Very few are works of thought. See the words uttered by E. Boutroux in August, 1915, to the Committee of the Entente Cordiale, against the peoples who attach too much importance to the intelligence, which ‘of itself tends to be one and common to all beings capable of knowledge’.