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The Outbreak of Peace, by Horace Brown Fyfe
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Title: The Outbreak of Peace
Author: Horace Brown Fyfe
Illustrator: van Dongen
Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29989]
Language: English
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THE OUTBREAK ... PEACE
THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE
By H. B. FYFE
Illustrated by van Dongen
When properly conducted, a diplomatic mission can turn the most smashing of battle-successes into a fabulous Pyrrhic victory.
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It was a great pity, Space Marshal Wilbur Hennings reflected, as he gazed through the one-way glass of the balcony door, that the local citizens had insisted upon decorating the square before their capitol with the hulk of the first spaceship ever to have landed on Pollux V.
A hundred and fifty years probably seemed impressive to them, amid the explosive spread of Terran colonies and federations. Actually, in the marshal's opi