peace-preserving

Updated: June 20, 2025

Upon these lines the raid incident afforded an immense advantage to Afrikaner Bond tactics, and an impulse to Bond propaganda which enormously increased Boer partisanship, inflicting at the same time a fatal check upon the diplomacy of England and upon the essential peace-preserving measures for safeguarding her South African interests.

C. H. Thomas - Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.): The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked

Perhaps we are going to be put back to learn over again under simpler conditions some of those necessary fundamental lessons our race has learnt as yet insufficiently well honesty and brotherhood, social collectivism, and the need of some common peace-preserving council for the whole world. Our conceptions of what a good citizen should be are all at sixes and sevens.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World