Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postscript to Goodbye To All That" Graves answers some of his critics, prints some of their contradictory letters, gives his own solution for war. Says he: it is impossible to legislate war out of existence, and not altogether desirable, for if it could be controlled it might be fun again. His suggested form of war "falls somewhere between a football match with large numbers of players on each side and an eighteenth-century battle." Rules: evenly matched forces (not more than 5,000 men a side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would...