The Problems of the Coming Peace (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

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The sacrifices caused by the present war are enormous. The first nine months have cost the warring nations five millions in killed and wounded, not including those who were taken prisoners.* During the same period the expenditures of the principal warring nations amounted to Thousands of villages and cities were reduced to ruins; all that were spared by the artillery fire were de stroyed by trench digging; these were the traces which the hurricane of war left behind when it swept the country side. Famine, misery, contagious diseases followed the warring armies as jackals follow a caravan. The prosperity of nations which were leaders in civilizatory work has been ruined; ruined was also the happiness of millions of families from whom the war tore away father, husband and brother. Who will tell how many tears have been shed? Who will describe the suffering and the agony?

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