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Title: Fighting For Peace

Author: Henry Van Dyke

Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #19693]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's Notes]
Chapter numbers and subheading are both Roman numerals.
The chapter headings are preceded with the word "Chapter".

Text has been moved to avoid breaking sentences across page boundaries.

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This is a list of unfamiliar (to me) words.

apologue
Moral fable; an allegory.

arbitral
Relating to arbiters or arbitration.

bahn
Pathway.

Belial
Spirit of evil personified; the devil; Satan; worthlessness.

billet-doux
Love letter.

chatelaine
Mistress of a castle or fashionable household. Clasp or chain for
holding keys, trinkets, etc., worn at the waist by women; woman's
lapel ornament resembling this.

confabulations
Conversation; discussion.

Credat Judaeus Apella! [non ego]
"Let the Jew Apella believe it; not I".
Roughly, "tell it to someone else, not me."

escutcheon
Shield or similar surface showing a coat of arms.

flagitious
Shamefully wicked, persons, actions, or times.
Heinous or flagrant crime;

grandiloquently
Speaking or expressed in a lofty style; pompous, bombastic, turgid,
pretentious.

identic
Identical in form, as when two or more governments deal simultaneously
with another government.

lycanthropy
In folklore, ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf.

Mare Liberum
Body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.

mendax
Given to lying.

miching mallecho
Sneaky mischief.

Mittel-Europa
German term approximately equal to Central Europe.

non possumus
We cannot.

obeisance
Movement of the body showing