King of Sweden

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[Illustration: H.M. HAAKON VII

King of Norway

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The Peace of the World

A Famous Englishman's Diagnosis of the War Disease and His Prescription
for a Permanent Cure

By H.G. Wells

(COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY.)

(Copyrighted in Great Britain and Ireland.)


I.

Probably there have never been before in the whole past of mankind so
many people convinced of the dreadfulness of war, nor so large a