72/108 But they would not be at all surprised if it did so to-night. They talk all the time of the danger and of the probability of war; they don't expect it; but most wars have come without warning, and they are all the time prepared to begin a fight in an hour. They now have these problems in hand and therefore they are for the moment not likely to provoke a fight. But they might. The controversy about training boys for the army never ends. |