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		<title>George Meredith: Soldiers who had gone into white pit for the bloody kiss of death</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war George Meredith: Selections on peace and&#160;war ==== George MeredithVittoria &#8230;it seemed a strife of insects, until, one by one, soldiers who had gone into yonder white pit for the bloody kiss of death, and had got it on their faces, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Naguib Mahfouz: He would murmur with heartfelt homesickness, &#8220;I&#8217;m going home to my country&#8230;.I&#8217;m going home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and war ==== Naguib MahfouzPalace WalkTranslated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny He attacked the rise in prices and the scarcity of necessary commodities caused by this war, which had been giving the world a pounding for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: The cheapening of life and art following The Great Skirmish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Land, 1917 The next war, if there be one &#8211; which Man forbid &#8211; may be fought without the use of a single big ship or a single infantryman. It may begin, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lin Yutang: Peace on earth is an act of faith, and without faith we shall not be saved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Lin Yutang: Not planning for peace will render whole world arena of bloodshed and slaughter ==== Lin YutangBetween Tears and Laughter(1943) For fully equipped as we are with a philosophy of war, the psychology of war, the politics of war, and the implements of war, how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Julian Green: Hiroshima has separated us all, every one of us, from a great part of ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace American writers on peace and against war ==== Julian GreenJournalTranslated by Anne Green 1950 Went to the movies yesterday to see a sort of documentary of our times. Gide, Jean Rostand, and several others speak. Picasso appears for a moment. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irving Babbitt: Press drives nation from pacifism to jingoism with disconcerting suddenness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Irving BabbittDemocracy and Leadership &#8230;the Machiavellian solution is in itself impossible. If the Occident does not get beyond this type of realism, it will simply reenact all the pagan stupidities and hasten once more to the pagan doom. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christopher Isherwood: We looked down on War as a bird might</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Christopher Isherwood: That is what War is Christopher Isherwood: What war really is ==== Christopher Isherwood and W.H. AudenJourney to a War We arrived in Cheng-chow after midnight, two hours behind time. The moon shone brilliantly down on the ruined [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>J.B. Priestley: The best sorted out and slaughtered by huge murderous public folly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war J.B. Priestley: Insane regress of ultimate weapons leads to radioactive cemetery ==== J.B. PriestleyMargin Released Outside any plan of campaign, without any battle being fought, any honours being won, we went through the mincer. It was not long before our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charles de Saint-Évremond: Any peace good that spares millions that would be consumed by war</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Charles de Saint-ÉvremondOn the Peace Treaty He wisely thinks that any peace is good, when by it so many millions can be protected whose lives would necessarily be consumed by continuing the war. *** &#8230;his conversation with Turenne on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aldous Huxley: Pacifists pledge realization of human unity through non-violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous HuxleyWhat Are You Going to Do About It?The Case for Constructive Peace Militarists are incurably romantic, constitutionally incapable of facing facts. &#8230;the causes of war are not exclusively economic. There have been wars [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Edwin Markham: Selections on peace and war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Edwin Markham: Selections on peace and war Edwin Markham: Field and flood are weary of battle blood Edwin Markham: Fling down your swords, ye are not wolf-packs: ye are men Edwin Markham: Peace Edwin Markham: Peace Over&#160;Africa Edwin Markham: Semiramis, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Better to serve your country with a quill than with a bayonet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Selections on peace and war ==== Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons: A Family Picture &#8220;Of the two, certainly, you had better serve your country with a goose-quill than by poking a bayonet into the ribs of some unfortunate Indian; I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lin Yutang: Not planning for peace will render whole world arena of bloodshed and slaughter </title>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Lin Yutang: Peace on earth is an act of faith, and without faith we shall not be saved ==== Lin YutangBetween Tears and Laughter(1943) The present world spectacle may be tragic. I share in all the depths of spiritual misery of this tragic decade. I do [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: Spare a fraction of time to see the people for “whose good” you launch this glorious murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyA SheafFirst Thoughts on This War(From Scribner’s Magazine, 1914) Three weeks before this war began I was in one of those East End London parishes whose inhabitants exist from hand to mouth on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: The incalculable human, economic, environmental costs of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairThe Book of Life When in a world war we kill some ten or twenty millions of the flower of our young manhood, we have only to wait several generations, and our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W.H. Auden: In times of war even crudest kind of positive affection between persons seems extraordinarily beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== W.H. AudenThe Age of Anxiety I see in my mind a besieged island,That island in arms where my home once was.Round green gardens, down grooves between whiteHawthorn-hedges, long hospitals trainsSmoothly slide with their sensitized freightOf mangled men,Moving them homewardIn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Richard Aldington: Barrage. Bombardment.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Richard Aldington: Selections on war ==== Richard AldingtonBarrage Thunder,The gallop of innumerable Walkyrie impetuousfor battle,The beating of vast wings above Prometheus,The contest of tall barbaric gods smitten by the hammer of Thor,Pursuit! Pursuit! Pursuit!The huge black dogs of hellLeaping, full-mouthed, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>C.P. Snow: &#8220;If there is another war, it&#8217;ll be the end of us, won&#8217;t it?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war C.P. Snow: Selections on war ==== C.P. SnowCorridors of Power &#8220;I suppose Roger is right. If there is another war, it&#8217;ll be the end of us, won&#8217;t it?&#8221; I said yes. He turned to me: &#8220;How much does it matter?&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: When the conscript souls disembodied by this war meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyA SheafFirst Thoughts on This War(From Scribner’s Magazine, 1914) When the conscript souls disembodied by this war meet, if they meet at all, how will they talk of this last madness? Perhaps one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>William Makepeace Thackeray: The chief trait of military commanders is an immense genius for mischief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war ==== William Makepeace ThackerayCatherine Mr. Macshane drew his finger across his throat in such a dreadful way as to make the two parents tremble. “It&#8217;s the way of war, madam, look you. The service [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irving Babbitt: War has become inconceivably maleficent, a clash between Frankenstein monsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Irving Babbitt: Beginnings of new type of warfare, coming together of whole nations for mutual massacre Irving Babbitt: War turns mankind’s claim to be led by reason into a bad jest ==== Irving BabbittDemocracy and Leadership &#8230;war has become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>George Alfred Lawrence: A wail of widows and orphans and mothers, from homestead, hamlet and town</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== George Alfred LawrenceBorder and Bastille Before we rose from table the truth began to ooze out. One or two New York papers, that had slipped on board with the pilot, were more communicative&#8230;. Thousands of corpses, the full tale [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upton Sinclair: Make this resolution, send this message to all the nations of the earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Upton Sinclair: Selections on war ==== Upton SinclairJimmie Higgins &#8220;You men and women of America, and you exiles from all corners of the world, make this pledge with me &#8211; make it now, before it is too late, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W.H. Auden: All war&#8217;s woes I can well imagine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== W.H. AudenThe Age of Anxiety All war&#8217;s woes I can well imagine.Gun-barrels glint, gathered in ambush,Mayhem among mountains; minerals breakIn by order on intimate groups ofTender tissues; at their tough visitFlesh flusters that was so fluent till now,Stammers some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aldous Huxley: History teaches us that war is not inevitable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous HuxleyWhat Are You Going to Do About It?The Case for Constructive Peace The civilization of the Indus Valley was as rich and elaborate as those of Sumer and Egypt. But it was a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: History won&#8217;t say: &#8220;And this they did without a single protest from their public men!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Mob MORE. You know my feeling. KATHERINE. But it&#8217;s our own country. We can&#8217;t stand apart from it. You won&#8217;t stop anything &#8211; only make people hate you. I can&#8217;t bear that. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>George Meredith: The war-machine was in motion from end to end</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war George Meredith: Selections on peace and&#160;war ==== George MeredithVittoria Military science has made a mailed giant of Verona, and a silent one, save upon occasion. Its face grins of war, like a skeleton of death; the salient image of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thomas Hardy: At the War Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Hardy: Selections on&#160;war ==== Thomas HardyAt the War Office(Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded: December 1899) I Last year I called this world of gain-givingsThe darkest thinkable, and questioned sadlyIf my own land could heave its pulse less [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Julian Green: War is and remains the masterpiece of human stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace American writers on peace and against war ==== Julian GreenThe Green ParadiseTranslated by Anne and Julian Green To leave the Villa du Lac, where we had such heart-rending memories, did not seem difficult, and yet if I remember that during [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irving Babbitt: Beginnings of new type of warfare, coming together of whole nations for mutual massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Irving BabbittDemocracy and Leadership Rousseau foresees that the states of Europe are destined to ruin themselves by their military preparations. He leaves us, in short, without any adequate solution of a problem, that of the centrifugal nationality, which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Julian Jay Savarin: The world was witnessing man&#8217;s greatest insanity so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Julian Jay Savarin: Intimations of thirty years of war ==== Julian Jay SavarinWinter and the General Hell on earth tore the cold day with its roar of destruction. All around, the air was streaked with the fire trails of barrage [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Arthur Graeme West: I was under so many delusions when I joined at first</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Arthur Graeme West: I certainly asked no one to start this war ==== Arthur Graeme WestThe Diary of a Dead Officer (The author&#8217;s brief life was ended by a sniper&#8217;s bullet in a trench in France on April 3, 1917.) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter Scott: War, in itself perhaps the greatest of evils</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Walter Scott: Selections on war ==== Walter ScottThe Talisman ..war, in itself perhaps the greatest of evils…. *** Walter ScottThe Abbot “I do not wish your boy to be in attendance on myself, but upon the good knight my husband. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aldous Huxley: Task of pacifism is to prevent war from breaking out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous HuxleyWhat Are You Going to Do About It?The Case for Constructive Peace In our relations with other human beings we have all of us, j at some time or another, made use of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Irving Babbitt: War turns mankind&#8217;s claim to be led by reason into a bad jest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Irving BabbittDemocracy and Leadership The man of the nineteenth century was indeed wont to take for granted that the type of progress he sought to promote was a progress towards civilization. Some persons began to have doubts on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: When the guns cease fire and all is still</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyHarvest(From the Book of the Homeless, 1916) The sky to-night looks as if a million bright angels were passing &#8211; a gleaming cloud-mesh drawn across the heaven. One star, very clear, shines beside [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eden Phillpotts: War impedes man&#8217;s moral evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Eden Phillpotts: Not exactly inhuman. The war changed the face of the world forever. Eden Phillpotts: We are suffering from a sort of universal shell shock ==== Eden PhillpottsChildren of Men Observation has convinced me that moral evolution is upward, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Robert Underwood Johnson: Selections on peace and war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Robert Underwood Johnson: Selections on peace and war Robert Underwood Johnson: The Cost Robert Underwood Johnson: The fairest of daughters, heavenly&#160;Peace Robert Underwood Johnson: To Peace, that no gun may sound, that all the Earth at last be holy ground [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Julian Green: Stephen Crane and the crass stupidity of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace American writers on peace and against war ==== Julian GreenJournalTranslated by Anne Green 1947 Someone just back from the United States tells me that America is recovering from the war, &#8220;like a giant from a scratch.&#8221; So much the worse [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brent Dow Allinson: “You should have seen the troops! God! They were splendid!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Brent Dow Allinson: Selections on peace and war ==== Brent Dow AllinsonThe Hero of VimyAn Incident of the Great War We charged at Vimy, &#8211; zero was at four;Sore-eyed we rose and cursed the bleeding war,And sick at heart, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>J.B. Priestley: Already the war was on, a world ending</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war J.B. Priestley: Insane regress of ultimate weapons leads to radioactive cemetery ==== J.B. PriestleyMargin Released I was then a fairly commonplace lad, I think, not very different from a few hundred thousand of my contemporaries, so many of them soon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Galsworthy: The Hope of a Lasting Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Galsworthy: Selections on war ==== John GalsworthyThe Hope of a Lasting Peace(From a Symposium on “Nationality,” 1915) In these times one dread lies heavy on heart and brain &#8211; the thought that after all the unimaginable suffering, waste, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>C.P. Snow: If that happens, our descendants, if we have any, will curse us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war C.P. Snow: Selections on war ==== C.P. SnowCorridors of Power &#8220;If we are going to use the word dangerous, you are at present one of the most dangerous men in the world. And you&#8217;ve done that damage by distorting science. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Oxenham: This monster of War was taking them one by one</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war John Oxenham: Selections on war ==== John Oxenham1914 He saw the casualty lists as they were compiled at the office, long before they were issued, and groaned over them in general and in particular. Killed, wounded, missing, &#8211; many whom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aldous Huxley: The constructive, and complete, pacifist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous HuxleyWhat Are You Going to Do About It?The Case for Constructive Peace Pacifism certainly has its risks. But so has militarism; and the risks of militarism are far greater than those of pacifism. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Dryden: I have dreamt all night of horrid slaughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== John DrydenTroilus and Cressida Andromache. I have dreamt all night of horrid slaughters,Of trampling horses, and of chariot wheelsWading in blood up to their axle-trees;Of fiery demons gliding down the skies,And Ilium brightened with a midnight blaze: *** Thersites. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W.H. Auden: In Time of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war W.H. Auden: A land laid waste, its towns in terror and all its young men slain W. H. Auden: O What Is That Sound W. H. Auden: The shield of Achilles ==== W.H. AudenIn Time of WarXVI Here war is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>J.B. Priestley: Flesh and blood had no place in this factory of destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war J.B. Priestley: Insane regress of ultimate weapons leads to radioactive cemetery ==== J.B. PriestleyMargin Released War might drive a man till he dropped; it could be a dangerous and bloody business; we believed, however, that it still offered movement, colour, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Harry Kemp: The Conquerors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Harry Kemp: I Sing the Battle ==== Harry KempThe Conquerors I saw the Conquerors riding byWith trampling feet of horse and men:Empire on empire like the tideFlooded the world and ebbed again; A thousand banners caught the sun,And cities smoked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter Scott: After battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Walter Scott: Selections on war ==== Walter ScottThe Betrothed &#8220;She who weds with a man of war and of blood, her end shall neither be peaceful nor bloodless!&#8221; *** Numbers…of the loose and profligate characters which abound in a country [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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