(Continued from page 7) settled by discussion. He must add, however, the qualification that it was no use io embark on discussions for a settlement of differences, the satisfaction of aspirations and the removal of grievances the atmosphere was favourable, and unless those who undertook them were convinced that those who sat round the table wanted a peaceful settlement, and had no sinister ideas at the back of their minds.
No one could read of the pitiful procession of wounded men, old men, women and children, some of them mutilated, struggling up the great mountains dividing France from Spain, under conditions of bitter hardship, without feeling what a terrible thing war was.
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