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The Toys of Peace and Other Papers - Original Edition
Saki
The Toys of Peace and Other Papers - Original Edition
Saki
"Harvey," said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, "just read this about children's toys, please; it exactly carries out some of our ideas about influence and upbringing."In the view of the National Peace Council," ran the extract, "there are grave objections to presenting our boys with regiments of fighting men, batteries of guns, and squadrons of 'Dreadnoughts.' Boys, the Council admits, naturally love fighting and all the panoply of war . . . but that is no reason for encouraging, and perhaps giving permanent form to, their primitive instincts. At the Children's Welfare Exhibition, which opens at Olympia in three weeks' time, the Peace Council will make an alternative suggestion to parents in the shape of an exhibition of 'peace toys.' In front of a specially-painted representation of the Peace Palace at The Hague will be grouped, not miniature soldiers but miniature civilians, not guns but ploughs and the tools of industry ...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 16, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798565364279 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 432 |
Dimensions | 127 × 203 × 22 mm · 426 g |
Language | English |
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