Life of Cardinal Gibbons Archbishop of Baltimore volume 2
Life of Cardinal Gibbons Archbishop of Baltimore volume 2
Allen S Allen Sinclair Will
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He had been too practical to cherish dreams of a serene and unclouded old age, but the convulsion of the nations shocked him more than it did most men, because it meant the failure, at least temporarily, of his protracted efforts in behalf of world peace by the arbitral settlement of international disputes. For his own country he had thought that he saw com- parative safety in following the counsel of Washington to avoid entanglements with Europe, so far as they in- volved participation in offe...nsive or defensive alliances that contained within themselves the seeds of war; but the project of international cooperation in steps for the prevention of war seemed to him to be the best means at hand during his lifetime for giving effect to what Wash- ington had sought. On the day when he learned that Germany had de- clared war on Russia, and that the great nations of Europe would inevitably be drawn in, he said : 804 STRESS OF THE WORLD WAR 805 "It is dreadful. I had hoped and prayed that such a war might be averted.
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