They'd talk o' pacifism, and they'd be conscientious objectors, who had never been sair troubled by their conscience before.
Noo, it's those same folk, those who helped the Hun during the war by talking of the need of peace at any price, who said that any peace was better than any war, who are maist anxious noo that we should let the Bolsheviks frae Russia show us how to govern ourselves.

I'm a suspicious man, it may be.

But I cannot help thinking that those who were enemies of their countries during the war should not be taken very seriously now when they proclaim themselves as the only true patriots.
They talk of internationalism, and of the common interests of the proletariat against capitalism.

But of what use is internationalism unless all the nations of the world are of the same mind?
How shall it be safe for some nations to guide themselves by these fine sounding principles when others are but lying in wait to attack them when they are unready?
I believe in peace.

I believe the laddies who fought in France and in the other battlegrounds of this war won peace for humanity.