To 93 young girls of the Beth Jacob School in Warsaw there was no consolation in Nietzche's cynicism: Men are made for war and women for warriors' pleasures. To a world whose capacity for indignation too rapidly becomes fatigued, a letter from one of these girls, published last week,* came as a blazing reminder of the sufferings of a people which barbarism has always attempted to destroy:
"Yesterday and the day before we were given hot baths and we were told that the German soldiers would come tonight to visit us. Yesterday we swore to ourselves that we shall die together. Yesterday...
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