Excerpt from To Neutral Peace-Lovers: A Plea for Patience As the war drags on into its third year, a curious phenomenon is becoming more and more noticeable. The neutral countries are growing more wan-weary than the belligerent countries - at any rate than those belligerents who are not subjected to the pressure of the blockade. And this weariness is having the curious effect of making the friends of peace-at any-price play into the hands of the champions of war They clamour for a peace which would leave all the moral issues of the War un determined, ii not determined in the wrong sense, and which would enable Germany to maintain, with some plausibility, that war had once more proved a paying speculation for her. To all reasonable peace lovers, that must surely seem the one intolerable disaster. If the German belief in war as good business is able to hold up its head at the end of the struggle, the prospects of enduring peace fade away into the mists of an immeasurable distance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.