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  • The Toys of Peace

    09/29/2001 11:44:24 AM PDT · by dighton · 3 replies · 681+ views
    The Toys of Peace, via Project Gutenberg | c. 1914 | Saki (H.H. Munro)
    "Harvey," said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, "just read this about children's toys, please; it exactly carries out some of our ideas about influence and upbringing.""In the view of the National Peace Council," ran the extract, "there are grave objections to presenting our boys with regiments of fighting men, batteries of guns, and squadrons of 'Dreadnoughts.' Boys, the Council admits, naturally love fighting and all the panoply of war . . . but that is no reason for encouraging, and perhaps giving permanent form to, their primitive instincts. ...