Show TWE or eng engla ush sh authors unite in earnest appeal for peace london pec leo 24 an appeal has been Is blued by tile lie authors signed with SOO 00 rit lynes to their the contreres confreres con freres tn in united those of sir walter tha besant names include L ly john ruskin john I 1 laggard haggard bid hall caine 11 II rider edwin Mendl berf arnold george georg e a dath th prof W K I 1 11 II lecky martin IL X D blackmore BUWA aa re william alf alfred austin tha th 11 appeal says flays at t his crisis in the history of the an anglo glo saxon race there are two paths one leads we know not whither but b t in the e end nd through war with all it its bir ac C compartments ot of carnage unspeakable suffering buffering and hideous desolation to the inevitable sequel of hatred bitterness and disrud disruption tion 0 our race it ta I 1 5 this path we ask you to join us in an effort to 0 o make impossible not on the grounds of political equity equal do we address ad dress you but we a are united to you by many ties we are proud of the united states there is nothing in our history that has haa earned us moro more glory that the conquest of the vast american continent by the anglo saxon race when our pride Is humbled by a report of something you do better than ourselves it la is also uplifted by the consciousness that the united states and wo we are kith and kin after dwelling upon the intimate ite ties of relationship and brotherly sentiment the appeal continues there la Is no anti american feeling among the english it la Is impossible that there can be an anti english feeling among americans for two such nations to take up arms would be civil var m at not differ ing from your struggle of thirty years ago except that the cause would be immeasurably less humane less tragic and less inevitable after referring to ties that literature makes the appeal continues it if war should occur between england and america english literature would be dishonored and disfigured for 8 a century to conae come patriotic son songs go his boiles tot lea of letory and defeat records of humiliation and disgrace stories of burning wrongs and insult these would be branded in the hearts of our people they would so BO express themselves tn in poems novels and plays as to make it impossible for any of us who live through the fratricidal war to take up again the former love and friendship for the united anglo saxon the great M names of as v ington ton nelson gordon 1 0 cratil att 0 and milton there Is IR such buell I 1 a future acy r X e has haa had in the history 0 of me the world vollda vor lda a future that will be built on the confederation of sovereign states living in the strength of the tha same liberty the document concludes as follo follows s we appeal to all writers in the united t ed states to exercise their tar far reaching influence to save our literature from dishonor and our race from lasting in jury |