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		<title>Lynd, Robert Wilson -- Searchlights and Nightingales (1939)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.</p>
<br><b>Robert Wilson Lynd</b> (1879–1949) Irish writer, literary essayist, journalist,  nationalist (Robiard Ó Flionn; pseud. "Y. Y.")<br><i>Searchlights and Nightingales</i> (1939) 
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