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THE HORROR OF IT -- CAMERA RECORDS OF WAR'S GRUESOME GLORIES |
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FOREWORD Yesterday the President of a great bank said to a U.S. Senate Committee: "Boys actually born since the Great War are just entering the Universities of Germany." So they are in every nation -- boys who have learned less of the realities, than of the romance and adventure of war. Whether the nations will continue to pay out more than three quarters of their incomes for wars, past, present and future, or turn their common sense and reason upon methods of war prevention depends upon these boys from whose numbers the statesmen of the future will emerge. Blessings on the camera which now for the first time in the history of the world, provides the means of teaching youth the terrible, undeniable facts of war. The camera tells the truth, speaks all languages and can cross all frontiers. To all peoples this little book offers a silent but heartrending prayer that courts, round-tables, conventions, and conferences shall speedily become the substitutes for battlefields since no longer can a nation that thinks itself civilized maintain the policy of war. May book and prayer travel far and wide, leaving their unforgettable impress upon the understanding of the leaders of all men.
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