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3 war, alike from the Military legislation and diplomatic points of view ^ taken by eminent speakers. Major General John F. O'Ryan, carried his appeal away from Army and Navy experts, as incapable of peaceful solutions, to public opinion arnsed? to demand immediate reduction of armament in order to prevent a rapidly impending war - As the "greatest since the experienced soldier can render his country now, I warn you," he exclaimed, that "unless the halt is arranged without delay the explosion is not far off." And he carried his warning all the way home by holding "fathers and mothers who do not act resolutely and promptly, morally responsible with being accessories before the fact to the slaying of their own sons in the next war." Holding war Responsible for inflicting spiritual losses greater than the loss of life and property, Senator Walsh of Montana held such politicians and journalists as deem "utterly futile all efforts to adjust differences between nations, or to forestall a conflict of arms - and ^who exhibits unrestrained glee at every appearance of their failure, to want no world comt and to look askance ^at if they do not oppose, every movement for the