'THE OBJECTS OF THE WAR', ARTICLE IN THE ECONOMIST (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ζ”

(“ZETA”)

“THE OBJECTS OF THE WAR”, ARTICLE IN THE ECONOMIST

The Economist, March 27, 1915. Saturday.

Article: “The Objects of the War” (in connection with Grey’s speech on Monday (March 22??) in the Bechstein Hall).

The editors are concerned for peace and rejoice that Grey did not say anything likely “to lengthen or embitter the war”....

The end of the article reads:

“Statesmanship cannot contemplate a bitter end ofuniversal mourning and almost universal bankruptcy.A time may come before long when it willbe possible to consult the dictates of humanityand at the same time to secure the objects indicatedby Sir Edward Grey [the freedom of nationalitiesetc.].... If such an opportunity is lost, the war willnot go on for ever. It will end in revolutionarychaos, beginning no one can say where and endingin no one can say what. Even if the war ceasedtomorrow, there is hardly a family even in thiscomparatively prosperous country which will notsuffer severely for years to come from the burdensentailed by the struggle” (p. 615). (End.)
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“Statesmanship cannot contemplate a bitter end ofuniversal mourning and almost universal bankruptcy.A time may come before long when it willbe possible to consult the dictates of humanityand at the same time to secure the objects indicatedby Sir Edward Grey [the freedom of nationalitiesetc.].... If such an opportunity is lost, the war willnot go on for ever. It will end in revolutionarychaos, beginning no one can say where and endingin no one can say what. Even if the war ceasedtomorrow, there is hardly a family even in thiscomparatively prosperous country which will notsuffer severely for years to come from the burdensentailed by the struggle” (p. 615). (End.)

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