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Sassoon's Public Statement Of Defiance
by Siegfried Sassoon
'I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military
authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by
those who have the power to end it.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I
believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and
liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe
that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this
war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to
change them, and that, had this been done, the objects witch actuated us
would now be attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer
be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be
evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but
against the political errors and insincerity's for which the fighting
men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the
deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that I may
help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those
at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and
which they have not sufficient imagination to realise.'
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