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part by going to Germany and re-establishing ties with German life as well as creating new ones where possible. ‘It is 200 A war of individuals the soldiers who will be the good Pacifists – just as every decent Pacifist should be a soldier’, he wrote to a friend.21 It was his direct experience as a soldier that compelled Keeling to write a powerful article for the New Statesman against the issue of compulsion. ‘Now that I know what one’s experiences in the firing-line at their worst actually are’, he wrote, ‘I cannot as a responsible citizen of a democratic