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In succouring C I am not being charitable (that is the joke of it), I am really being selfish. For if one suffers, eventually the other must, and if one nation to-day befouls its own integrity and strikes blindly at a lesser nation, the whole world, willy (as they say) nilly must be sooner or later dragged into the fray. Men must fight, it is true just as women must have children. But don't let's fight if we must fight, blindly, let us know what it is all about, nations must understand each other, then if C is fighting D, there is much more fun to be got out of it altogether. We must know, know, KNOW. One of the most distinguished women of the political nonmilitant suffragette period said to me (in 1914) I have studied the problem from every angle, but I can dare not question our cause for going to war. If I questioned it for one moment, I should go mad.'' I did not say to her then, " well, go mad." I would now. I would say, If you haven't the courage and decency to face the thing straight now and for all time you don't deserve your sanity, and I hope you lose it." None of us in the light of later events dare slurr over our mentality for the sake of any personal fear of intellectual or physical consequences. I do not for one moment doubt the justice of England's heroic move in '14. But I will say then as now there was even among the most enlightened a tendency to scrap blindly brain for sentiment.
Well . . . what is this anti-Russian feeling but a sentiment? What do you know of the revolution? What do you know of the Russians ? Have you studied the Problem ? Do you know how the workers " suffered? I do not mean that I in any way question the political justice, the rigid watchfulness of certain of the authorities here in England.
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