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1、SelectedQuotationsChestertononWarandPeaceBattlingtheIdeasandMovementsthatLedtoNazismandWorldWarIIByG.K.Chesterton.EditedbyMichaelW.Perry.ContributionsbyThomasAquinas,WinstonChurchill,NormanAngell,BernardShaw,BertrandRussell,MahatmaGandhi,andH.G.WellsISBN:978-1-58742-062-7(hardback
2、)and978-1-58742-061-0(paperback).AvailableonlineandthroughmostbookstoresintheUSandEurope.Thisdocumentinprintorelectronicformatmaybefreelypassedalongtoothersaslongasnochargeismade.TheseChestertonquotationsmaybefreelyquotedelsewhere,butpleaseincludeareferencetoChestertononWarandPeac
3、e.TheAuthorWhoShouldHaveWonthe1933NobelPeacePrizeIndeedIwasawarmadmirerofGilbertChes-nessofGermans,thesuddenswoopofthesatanicstartlinginsightsintothemindsofmilitarists,inter-terton.…WhenHitlerismcame,hewasoneofwolfinapeacefulworldlustingtoeatsuchharmlessnationalists,racialsupremac
4、ists,andallthosewhothefirsttospeakoutwithallthedirectnessandlambsasFranceandRussia.”Thisblindnesstoevil,growwearyasawargrowslong.Remarkablysimi-franknessofagreatandunabashedspirit.Bless-Chestertonwarned,iswhy“PacifismandPrussian-larpersonalitiesandargumentsremainwithusiningstohism
5、emory.—RabbiStephenS.Wise,ism[Militarism]arealwaysinalliance,byafataltoday’sdebatesaboutwarandpeace.AmericanJewishLeader,1937.logicfarbeyondanyconsciousconspiracy.”Unfortunately,thebookthatyouholdinyourIn1933theNobelPeacePrizewasawardedtoSixyearslaterthat“satanicwolf”wouldplungeha
6、nddidnotexistin1933.It’sacollectionof111NormanAngellforhiskeyroleinfoundingmodernEuropeintothebloodiestwarinhumanhistory,aarticlesthatChestertonwrotefortheIllustratedpacifism.Itwasperhapsthegreatestblunderinthewarthatbegan—preciselyasChestertonpredictedLondonNewsbetween1905and1922
7、.Inthosearti-historyoftheNobelPrize.Theawardshouldhavein1932—overaborderdisputewithPoland.Evencles,writtensometwodecadesbeforetheSecondgonetotheauthorofthisbook.thehorrorsoftheSecondWorldWarwereforeseenWorldWar,ChestertonexplainedinpracticaltermsFewwritershaveprovenastragicallywro
8、ngbyChesterton,whowarnedinSeptemb