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Updated: July 23, 2025
'Word has reached us that in all probability this nation will be faced shortly with the most momentous decision of the war. Therefore I must insist that you take charge of the anti-disruptionist propaganda. I shall be in New York next Wednesday, and will discuss with you the methods by which we can stem the tide of disloyal pacificism as exemplified by this man Selwyn.
National safety does not necessarily lie in that direction. Nor, on the other hand, along the lines of extreme pacificism surely not as long as things are as they are. The argument of the lamb has small deterrent effect upon the wolf as long as the wolf is a wolf. And sometimes wolves hunt in packs.
I myself think it our bounden duty to believe in such international rationality as possible. But, as things stand, I see how desperately hard it is to bring the peace-party and the war-party together, and I believe that the difficulty is due to certain deficiencies in the program of pacificism which set the militarist imagination strongly, and to a certain extent justifiably, against it.
The best I could do was to put a hand on his shoulder and stroke him as one strokes a frightened horse. The sight of the price my old friend had paid didn't put me in love with pacificism. We talked of brother officers and South Africa, for I wanted to keep his thoughts off the war, but he kept edging round to it. 'How long will the damned thing last? he asked.
An unhealthy sentimentality the antithesis of morality has gone hand in hand with a peculiarly sordid and repulsive materialism. The result was a soil in which various noxious weeds flourished rankly; and of these the most noxious was professional pacificism.
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