Fighting for peace

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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 respect or deferential courtesy; bow, curtsy, or similar gesture.

passier-scheine Pass; permit.

persona grata Acceptable person or diplomatic representative.

poilus French soldier, especially in World War I.

Potsdam Capital city of the federal state of Brandenburg in Germany, southwest of Berlin. Berlin was the official capital of Prussia and later of the German Empire, but the court remained in nearby Potsdam, and many government officials also settled in Potsdam. The city lost this status as a second capital in 1918, when World War I ended and the emperor Wilhelm II was deposed.

refractory (persons) Hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.

sagacity Sound judgment.

schmuck Obnoxious, contemptible, clumsy or stupid person.

schrecklichkeit Frightfulness; horror.

soubrette Maidservant in a play displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue. Flirtatious or frivolous young woman.

trepanning Using a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft that is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.

ululation Howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl; to lament loudly and shrilly.

Vallombrosa Resort in central Italy, near Florence; a famous abbey.

vicegerent Person appointed by a head of state to act as an administrative deputy.

voluble Continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: articulate, garrulous, loquacious.

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BY HENRY VAN DYKE Fighting for Peace The Unknown Quantity The Ruling Passion The Blue Flower ——————————— Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Days Off Little Rivers Fisherman's Luck ——————————- Poems, Collection in one volume ——————————- The Red Flower The Grand Canyon, and Other Poems The White Bees, and Other Poems The Builders, and Other Poems Music, and Other Poems The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems The House of Rimmon

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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

FIGHTING FOR PEACE

BY HENRY VAN DYKE D.C.L. (OXFORD) RECENTLY UNITED STATES MINISTER TO HOLLAND

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