Peacemakers—Blessed and Otherwise - Observations, Reflections and Irritations at an International Conference

This book does not pretend to be a history or even an adequate review of the work of the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, nor does it pretend to be the writers full appraisement of that work. It is what its sub-title suggests, a collection of observations, rejections and irritations. These were set down each week of the first two months of the Conference and were published practically as they stand here by the McClure Syndicate. When one attempts to set down, with any degree of candor, his impressions of a great gathering like the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, he will find himself swayed from amusement to irritation, from hope to despair, from an interest in the great end to an interest in the game as it is being played. My hopes and interests and irritations over the Washington Conference began weeks before it was called. What could it do? All around me men and women were saying, It will end war, and 2possiblyso deep was the demand in them that war be endedbelieving what they said. It has always been one of the singular delusions of people with high hopes that if nations disarmed there could be no wars. Take the gun away from the child and he will never hurt himself. If it were so easy! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54680
Author: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English