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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 1, 1933)

Kiss—Less We Fight!

Kiss—Less We Fight!

The Four Powers Pact is another proposition the character of which is as yet only half disclosed. Long before 1914, it was said that the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy) was necessary to prevent war between Italy and Austria. At the time, that remark was considered to be cynical. An alliance between two States, as an alternative to war between them, was, said someone, unthinkable. How thinkable such a thing can be was sufficiently demonstrated when the Great War recorded Italy's participation against her former allies—a deferred entry, it is true, and yet not nearly so deferred as was America's. It is therefore not cynical to say that one of the main purposes of the Four Powers Pact must be to insure against war between two or more of its signatories.