So many human lives gone every day; just soldiers, just the toll we have to pay for a slight advance or a costly retreat.

And, my God, every one of them, underneath their khaki, is a human being! The politicians don't grasp it, Julian.

That's our justification.

The day that armistice is signed, several hundred lives at least--perhaps, thousands--will be saved; for several hundred women the sun will continue to shine.

Parents, sweethearts, children--all of them--think what they will be spared!" "I am a man again," Julian declared.