II
TO NEUTRAL CRITICS
Certain points in my testimony have been challenged by persons sitting in security, three thousand miles away from the invaded country, where at my own cost and risk I have patiently gathered the facts on which I have based my statements.
I have built my testimony on three classes of evidence.
First: The things I have seen. I have given names, places and dates.
Second: The testimony of eye-witnesses, made to me in the presence of men and women, well-known in France, England and America. These eye-witnesses I have used in precisely the same way in which a case is built up in the courts of law.
Third: The diaries and letters written by Germans in which they describe the atrocities they have committed. I have seen the originals of these documents.
It is noticeable that the specific fact has never been challenged. The date has never been found misplaced, the place has never been confused, the person has never been declared non-existent. The denial has always been in blanket form.
The New York Evening Post says: "After the spy came the invasion, and after the invasion came the 'steam roller,' flattening out Belgium. This is all given in a general way."
It is given with exact specifications.