The Remaking of a Mind a Soldiers Thoughts On War And Reconstruction
The Remaking of a Mind a Soldiers Thoughts On War And Reconstruction
Hendrik De Man
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They were in maga- zines, newspapers and pamphlets by British, French, Dutch and Swiss socialists of the pacifist type. My first impression was painful resent- ment of what I thought to be a wrongful lack NINETEEN-FOURTEEN 73 of appreciation of the motives of those socialists who, hke myself, had accepted the duty of taking part in the defence of their country. But I soon realised that the matter deserved very serious attention. There was nothing in what they said, however unacceptable and unju...st it seemed to be at first sight, which did not call forth an echo in my innermost sentiments. Some of those who were saying that this war was nothing but a conflict between two groups of imperialist powers for world dominion, and that therefore it should be internationally op- posed by labour, I knew to be men and women of high intellectual standing and unexceptional moral character. Up to August, 1914, I had been in complete sympathy with them. What, then, had come between us ? Why, in a crisis like this, when our lives and the fate of our nations were at stake, should we stand in diametrically opposed camps?
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