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"Among the bravest men I knew in England were those who had the courage to refuse to fight," declared Siegfried Sassoon, the English soldier-poet, who spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night. "Thank God that in that terrible time there were men strong enough to suffer for their convictions."
Mr. Sassoon, in a short speech preceding his reading of his war-poems, gave this as a part of a message which he "had come to America to deliver to the men who may take part in future wars, and their wives. I do not wish to take away from the glory of those brave men who fought in the war," he said; "it is only because the little acts of kidness which the performed for one another in the midst of that Hell,--when they showed their true mettle,--accentuates its horrors, that I say it."
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