Friday, November 13, 2009

Lord Landsdowne

Lord Landsdowne93 years ago today, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, expressed disagreement with the Allied war effort. About a year later, he wrote (according to the History Channel):

[The] prolongation [of the war] will spell ruin for the civilized world, and an infinite addition to the load of human suffering which already weighs upon it[...]

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