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    The Outbreak of Peace
    The Outbreak of Peace
    The Outbreak of Peace
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    The Outbreak of Peace

    By Horace Brown Fyfe and H. R. van Dongen

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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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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      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction February 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      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.

      t 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.

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