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Show The War's Losses THE story of the Avar losses in men is beginning to come across the sea. Nothing like it was ever read before. "Only so many millions killed and wounded" is the burden of the news. So many millions killed, so many millions maimed, to be a tax upon friends and the state so long as they live. And how many million of hearts are broken because of those dead? And what for? Nothing that could not have been peaceably settled set-tled save for ambition, pride and lust for more territory and more power. Will the result be a lifting up of the poor and an insistence on their part that they must be consulted before the next war is sprung? If it 'could have that effect the sacrifice would not have been entirely in vain. |