The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... simply to focus attention on the kind of influences which terminate wars ; to survey what terminates wars is of course to examine the influences that bring peace ; and to examine the causes of peace is essentially to turn the causes of ...
... simply to focus attention on the kind of influences which terminate wars ; to survey what terminates wars is of course to examine the influences that bring peace ; and to examine the causes of peace is essentially to turn the causes of ...
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... simply less obvious . Any faded docu- ment which illuminates the causes of war must by implication also illuminate the causes of peace . Any document which dis- cusses an international crisis that ended peacefully is a mir- ror of both ...
... simply less obvious . Any faded docu- ment which illuminates the causes of war must by implication also illuminate the causes of peace . Any document which dis- cusses an international crisis that ended peacefully is a mir- ror of both ...
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... simply more courteous versions of commercial contracts . The difficulty in diplomacy , as in commerce , is to find an acceptable price for the transaction . Just as the price of mer- chandise such as copper roughly represents the point ...
... simply more courteous versions of commercial contracts . The difficulty in diplomacy , as in commerce , is to find an acceptable price for the transaction . Just as the price of mer- chandise such as copper roughly represents the point ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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