Did Not Lie

When Pauline Frederick, U. S. cinemactress, was "recalled" to the U. S. last week and her place in the Edith Cavell film, now being "shot" in Belgium, was given to Sybil Thorndyke, English actress, a mighty hullabaloo went up on all sides--but it was all about Edith Cavell, the British nurse that the Germans shot as a spy on Oct. 12, 1915, not about Pauline Frederick.

The Germans became vociferous once again in protesting against the film being made, their contention being that it would merely serve to cause bad feeling between the Teutons and the former allied peoples.

Then, the Belgians had their turn. Many of them expressed the view that by "adroit denials" the British nurse might have escaped death at the hands of the Germans. It was a pretty thing to strike an "I-would-not-tell-a-lie" attitude and die for it, these Belgians remarked, and went on to say that her "noble stand for principle" was less appreciated by the Belgian parents of children who were afterward the victims of her "remarkable honesty," and that many of her accomplices would have escaped had she been willing to tell a lie.