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Well meant advice, caricature from Der Floh, issue of 16 July 1899

The caricature shows that Bertha von Suttner and the god of war Mars, a thin, sickly boy between them. Mars takes the boy under his chin and says: “You see, Madame, that all the peace doctors cannot help the boy. Follow me, put the boy into a cadet school and we’ll make a healthy lad out of him.”

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    Alfred H. Fried and the peace movement during the war – censorship and derision

    When the First World War broke out in July 1914, Alfred H. Fried wrote the following lines in the August/September 1914 issue of his pacifist magazine Friedens-Warte: “In the spirit of Clausewitz, we can say that war is the continuation of peace work, but with other means. […]. For decades we have been carrying out dedicated work to achieve this goal, gladly devoting our energies to it. We can say with a clear conscience that we have done our duty. We have not suffered a defeat, as our opponents triumphantly claim.”