One sees at once that Peace Societies and nobel Prizes and Hague Tribunals and reforms of the Diplomatic Service and democratic control of Foreign Secretaries and Quaker and Tolstoyan preachments-though all these things may be good in their way-will never bring us swiftly to the realization of peace.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
It would register judgments such as those of the famous sub-committee that grants the nobel Prizes.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
Again, when prying peacemakers sought to intrude themselves upon the nations engaged in a life and death struggle, it was Lloyd George, in a remarkable interview, who warned all would-be winners of the nobel prize that peace talk was unfriendly, that "there was neither clock nor calendar in the British Army," that the Allies would make it a finish fight.
"The War After the War"
Isaac Frederick Marcosson