![]() ![]() ![]() He told me that he wanted a big International of all former soldiers in all countries it seems that there are a quarter of million members already in England and Germany and even more in Italy. To him the war against war is the highest object of life. This man could surely stand in our time as the best type of the reformer. One would have thought that such a war would have produced a hundred reporters who would have shocked the world by merely telling what they had seen – the plain facts yet only one man has attempted to do so. Sensational books are nearly always bad books: this is a sensational book that is great because of its truth. Le Feu (“Under Fire”) of Henri Barbusse is the book we needed. The World War with its twenty millions of murdered human beings needed an avenging spirit, some one who would tell the truth and picture the horror, some great soul flaming with pity. ![]() Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerptsĪmerican writers on peace and against warįrom Latest Contemporary Portraits (1927) ![]()
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