“But with calamity at the end of it! There must be calamity because otherwise the people who did the interfering would have to come back and cope with their responsibilities for a change—” “Just let a real war come along and then see how blood-thirsty chaps like you are!” “Which would never do. Why all you people who talk about going to Spain and fighting for freedom—Cervantes!—should learn by heart what Tolstoy said about that kind of thing in War and Peace, that conversation with the volunteers in the train—”
