generous obstinacy to his original prejudices. Germany remained most
tragically his second fatherland. Somewhere he writes, "I expect I
shall be a stronger Pacifist after the war than any of the people who
are Pacifists now. But I don't feel one will have earned the right to
be one _unless one has gone in with the rest_." The italics are mine.
Before a vindication so unanswerable criticism has no further word to
say.

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Extract from collected works, of Viscount HALDANE OF CLOAN, O.M.,
K.T., Op. 3001, Minister of Reconstruction. Report of the Machinery
of Government Committee (Cd. 9230), par. 12:--

"We have come to the conclusion, after surveying what came
before us, that in the sphere of civil government the duty of
investigation and thought, as preliminary to action, might
with great advantage be more definitely recognised."

"That's the stuff to give 'em."

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"Every boy in the street knows that all component factors in
Jugo-Slav countries have proclaimed the union of Jugo-Slavia
under the sceptre of the Karagorgjevic dynasty, and that the
jurisdiction of the new Jugo-Slav Government extends over
Belgrade and Nish, as well as over Zagreb, Sarajevo, Spljet,
or Ljubljana."--_Letter to "Manchester Guardian."_