Mark Lennox

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An American Quaker, Dorothy Detzer, was shockingly outspoken: I arrived at Mainz about four in the afternoon, on September 3rd. When we climbed off the train to the platform I suddenly went sick at the sight which greeted our eyes all along the platform. One had heard so much of the French occupation, and I was expecting to see troops like our southern darkies. Instead we found savages. I lived for over a year in the Philippine Islands and my first reaction was that here was Moco-land again – only that the natives were in uniforms instead of g-strings as would be their native ‘costume.’ And I ...more
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