“The calamity which has overtaken the whole world has wrought tremendous changes in our surroundings and in our outlook in a few short months. At a time when not only our hopes of permanent peace but the priceless possession of our common humanity seem to have been shattered, the temptation to search out misunderstandings and errors of statecraft or to ascribe all our ills to one nation or one individual is very great; but if the wound in our civilisation be deep and terrible, though it is not beyond healing, the time for probing the cause and applying the knife and dressings and ligatures is not yet. It is the work of ending the war and of succouring the helpless and homeless both abroad and at home that is insistent.”
The thoughts of the editor of ‘Across the Months’ in ‘Bootham’ magazine, December 1914