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`War,' declared Christopher Penn, 'is the most terrible of all evils. Pestilence and Famine are natural ills which civilisation is gradually bringing under its control, Fire and Tempest, Earthquake and Flood they at least are short lived localized horrors which it's impossible to prevent. But war is man made, It's a willful, inexcusable act of barbarity. It entails the committal of mass murder, mass mutilation and every other crime in the calendar, by one set of normally peace loving people against another, Nothing nothing, I say, is too terrible a punishment for those who set it in motion.'The two other men at the table fair, fat, red faced Billy Van Der Meer, and grey haired Hythe Cassel were silent for a moment; they were a little taken aback by this unusual vehemence in the slim, frail looking young man opposite them. His pale face was ascetically handsome, with features as clear cut as a cameo, and its natural pallor was in striking contrast to the jet black hair above his high forehead.Van Der Meer shrugged his broad shoulders. 'Well, I don't see what you can do about it, Penn. There always has been war in the world and it louts as if there always will be.''Nonsense!' expostulated Cassel. `Two hundred years ago people said the same about duelling, but public opinion condemned it, so duelling, or private war, was stamped out, Nowadays, public opinion has advanced to a stage where it condemns national war, so why shouldn't that be stamped out too? ThisItalian invasion of Abyssinia is sheer unprovoked aggression.'The war in North East Africa had already been raging for six months. Ever since the Wal Wal incident Mussolini had been massing men and material in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. All through the previous summer he had parleyed with the bickering League, outmaneuvering the anxious diplomats at every turn. In the autumn he had withdrawn Italy's representatives from the Assembly and, contemptuous of world opinion, marched into Abyssinia without even a formal declaration of hostilities. He was `adjusting his frontiers' he said, and quite a lot of people were exceedingly worried as to where he would ultimately decide that the frontiers of Italy's African possessions should be. Some thought that the modern Caesar would not be satisfied until the whole of North Africa was again a Roman province; others, experienced in hill fighting against hardy tribesmen in hideously difficult country that he had burnt his fingers and would never reach Magdala, ............

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