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+Title: The Outbreak of Peace
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+Author: Horace Brown Fyfe
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+Illustrator: van Dongen
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+Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29989]
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+Language: English
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+ This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction February 1961.
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+
+                        THE OUTBREAK ... PEACE
+
+                        THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE
+
+
+
+                            By H. B. FYFE
+
+
+                      Illustrated by van Dongen
+
+
+        _When properly conducted, a diplomatic mission can turn the
+         most smashing of battle-successes into a fabulous Pyrrhic
+         victory._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+It was a great pity, Space Marshal Wilbur Hennings reflected, as he
+gazed through the one-way glass of the balcony door, that the local
+citizens had insisted upon decorating the square before their capitol
+with the hulk of the first spaceship ever to have landed on Pollux V.
+
+A hundred and fifty years probably seemed impressive to them, amid the
+explosive spread of Terran colonies and federations. Actually, in the
+marshal's opinion, it was merely long enough to reveal such symbols as
+more than antiquated but less than historically precious.
+
+"I presume you plan to have me march past that heap!" he complained,
+tugging at the extremely "historical" sword that completed the effect
+of his dazzling white and gold uniform.
+
+Commodore Miller, his aide, stiffened nervously.
+
+"Around to the right of it, sir," he gestured. "As you see, the local
+military are already keeping the route clear of onlookers. We thought
+it would be most impressive if your party were to descend the outer
+stairway from the palace balcony here ... to heighten the importance
+of--"
+
+"To draw out the pomp and circumstance of opening the conference?"
+
+"Well, sir ... and then across the square to the conference hall of
+the capitol, outside which you will pause for a few gracious words to
+the crowd--"
+
+"And that will probably be my last opportunity to enjoy the morning
+sunlight. Oh, well, it seems much too bright here in any case."
+
+The commodore absently reached out to adjust a fold of his chief's
+sky-blue sash, and the marshal as absently parried the gesture.
+
+"I shall be hardly less than half an hour crossing the square," he
+predicted sourly. "With the cheering throngs they have undoubtedly
+arranged, and the sunlight reflecting from all that imitation marble,
+it will be no place to collect one's thoughts."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He turned back to the huge chamber constituting the "office" of the
+suite supplied by his Polluxian hosts. The skeleton staff of men and
+women remaining occupied chairs and benches along only one wall, since
+the bulk of the delegation had been sent out to make themselves
+popular with the local populace.
+
+Hennings presumed the bulk of the local populace to consist of
+Polluxians assigned to making themselves popular with his Ursan
+Federation delegation. His people would be listening politely to
+myriad reasons why the Polluxians had a natural right to occupy all
+the star systems from here to Castor, a dozen light-years farther
+from Terra. No one would mention the true motive--their illogical
+choice in naming themselves the Twin Empire.
+
+"Well, now!" he said crisply. "Once more over the main points of the
+situation! No, commodore, not the schedule of experts that will
+accompany me to the table; I rely upon you to have perfected that. But
+have there been any unforeseen developments in the actual fighting?"
+
+A cluster of aides, mostly in uniform but including a few in
+discreetly elegant civilian attire, moved forward. Each was somehow
+followed within arm's reach by an aide of his own, so that the advance
+presented overtones of a small sortie.
+
+Hennings first nodded to the first, a youngish man whose air suggested
+technical competence more than the assurance of great authority. The
+officer placed his brief case upon the glistening surface of a large
+table and touched a switch on the flap.
+
+"It's as well to be sure, sir," the commodore approved. "Our men have
+been unable to detect any devices, but the walls may have ears."
+
+"They won't scan through this scrambler, sir," asserted the young
+officer.
+
+Hennings accepted a seat at the table and looked up to one of the
+others.
+
+"Mirelli's Star," an older officer reported briskly. "The same
+situation prevails, with both sides having landed surface troops in
+force on Mirelli II, Mirelli III, and Mirelli V, the fourth planet
+being inhabited by a partly civilized, nonhuman race protected under
+the Terran Convention."
+
+"Recent engagements?"
+
+"No, sir. Maneuvering continues, but actual encounters have declined
+in frequency. Casualties are modest and evenly matched. General
+Nilssen on Mirelli III continues to receive Polluxian agents seeking
+his defection."
+
+"I never thought to ask," murmured Hennings. "Is he really a distant
+connection of the Polluxian Nilssen family?"
+
+"It is improbable, sir, but they are polite enough to accept the
+pretense. Of course, he rejects every offer in a very high-minded
+manner, and seems to be making an adequate impression of chivalry."
+
+He stepped back at Henning's nod, to be replaced by another officer.
+
+"One minor space skirmish in the Agohki system to report, sir. The
+admiral in command appears to have recouped after the error of two
+days ago, when that Polluxian detachment was so badly mauled. He
+arranged the capture of three of our cruisers."
+
+"Was that not a trifle rash?" demanded Hennings.
+
+"Intelligence is inclined to think not, sir. The ships were armed only
+with weapons listed as general knowledge items. The crews were not
+only trained in prisoner-of-war tactics, but also well supplied with
+small luxuries. The Polluxian fleet in that system is known to have
+been in space for several months, so a friendly effect is
+anticipated."
+
+Hennings considered the condensed report proffered for his perusal. He
+noted that the Polluxians had been quite gentlemanly about notifying
+Ursan headquarters of the capture and of the complete lack of
+casualties. He also saw that while the message was ostensibly directed
+to the Federation flagship, it had been beamed in such fashion as to
+be conveniently intercepted at the secret Ursan Federation
+headquarters on Agohki VII.
+
+"That was a bit rude of them," he commented. "We have never dragged
+their secrets into the open."
+
+"On the other hand, sir," the commodore suggested, "it may be an
+almost sophisticated method of permitting us to enjoy our superior
+finesse."
+
+"I am just as pleased to have the reminder," said Hennings. "It will
+serve to alert us all the more when we sit down with them over there."
+
+An elegant civilian, a large man with patient, drooping features,
+stated that nothing had occurred to change the economic situation.
+Another reported that unofficial channels of information were holding
+up as well as could be expected. A uniformed officer summarized the
+battle situation in two more star systems.
+
+"Those are positions we actually desire to hold, are they not?"
+Hennings asked. "Is action to be taken there?"
+
+"Plans call for local civilian riots at the height of the conference,
+sir."
+
+"But ... can we lay no groundwork sooner than that? Sometime in the
+foreseeable future, at least! Take it up with Propaganda, Blauvelt! It
+seems to me that the briefing mentioned an indigenous race on one of
+these planets--"
+
+Blauvelt dropped his eyes momentarily, equivalent in that gathering to
+a blush of intense embarrassment. Hennings coughed apologetically.
+
+"Well, now, I should not pry into arrangements I must later be able to
+deny convincingly with a clear conscience. I can only plead, my dear
+Blauvelt, the tenseness of the past several days."
+
+The officer murmured inaudibly, fumbled with his papers, and edged to
+the rear rank. Someone, at Commodore Miller's fluttering, obtained a
+vacuum jug of ice water and a glass for the marshal, but Hennings
+chose instead to produce a long cigar from a pocket concealed beneath
+his resplendent collection of medals.
+
+"My apologies to all of you," he said thoughtfully. "I fear that any
+of you who may expect contact with the local population had better see
+Dr. Ibn Talal about the hypnosis necessary to counteract my little
+indiscretion. And now--what remains?"
+
+"Nothing but the prisoner exchange, sir," Commodore Miller announced
+after collecting the eyes of the principal officers.
+
+Hennings got his cigar going. He listened to confirmation of a
+previous report that a massive exchange of "sick and wounded"
+prisoners had been accomplished, and learned that the Ursans now
+suspected that they had accepted unknowingly about as many secret
+agents as they had sent the Polluxians.
+
+"Oh, well!" he sighed. "As long as the amenities were preserved! We
+must be as friendly as possible about that sort of thing, or run the
+risk of antagonizing them."
+
+Seeing that the commodore was tense with impatience, the marshal rose
+to his feet. An aide deftly received the cigar for disposal, and the
+party drifted expectantly toward the balcony doors.
+
+From among that part of the staff which would remain to man
+headquarters, an officer was dispatched to alert the Polluxian honor
+guard.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_One more touch before the die is cast_, thought the marshal, as two
+young officers opened the balcony doors to admit the blare of
+trumpets.
+
+Cheers rolled successively across the square, rising like distant
+waves from somewhere beneath the gigantic banner that draped the
+capitol opposite with fiery letters spelling out "PEACE CONFERENCE."
+
+With a dramatic gesture, Hennings held up the sheaf of reports they
+had just reviewed. Smiles disappeared in response to his own serious
+mien.
+
+"So much for the hostilities!" he snapped. He tossed the reports to
+the officer who would remain in charge. "_Now for the actual war!_"
+
+Pivoting on his heel, he led them smartly out to the ornate balcony
+stairway that curved down into the sea of cheering Polluxians.
+
+THE END
+
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