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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Outbreak of Peace + +Author: Horace Brown Fyfe + +Illustrator: van Dongen + +Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29989] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction February 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="600" height="460" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>THE OUTBREAK ... PEACE</h1> + +<p class="smcap center"><b>the outbreak of peace</b></p> +<p> </p> +<h2>By H. B. FYFE</h2> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrated by van Dongen</h3> +<p> </p> +<p class="blockquot"> +<i>When properly conducted, a diplomatic mission can turn the most<br /> +smashing of battle-successes into a fabulous Pyrrhic victory.</i><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="51" height="50" /></div> +<p>t 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>Commodore Miller, his aide, stiffened nervously.</p> + +<p>"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—"</p> + +<p>"To draw out the pomp and circumstance of opening the conference?"</p> + +<p>"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—"</p> + +<p>"And that will probably be my last opportunity to enjoy the morning +sunlight. Oh, well, it seems much too bright here in any case."</p> + +<p>The commodore absently reached out to adjust a fold of his chief's +sky-blue sash, and the marshal as absently parried the gesture.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"They won't scan through this scrambler, sir," asserted the young +officer.</p> + +<p>Hennings accepted a seat at the table and looked up to one of the +others.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Recent engagements?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"I never thought to ask," murmured Hennings. "Is he really a distant +connection of the Polluxian Nilssen family?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>He stepped back at Henning's nod, to be replaced by another officer.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Was that not a trifle rash?" demanded Hennings.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"That was a bit rude of them," he commented. "We have never dragged +their secrets into the open."</p> + +<p>"On the other hand, sir," the commodore suggested, "it may be an +almost sophisticated method of permitting us to enjoy our superior +finesse."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Those are positions we actually desire to hold, are they not?" +Hennings asked. "Is action to be taken there?"</p> + +<p>"Plans call for local civilian riots at the height of the conference, +sir."</p> + +<p>"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—"</p> + +<p>Blauvelt dropped his eyes momentarily, equivalent in that gathering to +a blush of intense embarrassment. Hennings coughed apologetically.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing but the prisoner exchange, sir," Commodore Miller announced +after collecting the eyes of the principal officers.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>From among that part of the staff which would remain to man +headquarters, an officer was dispatched to alert the Polluxian honor +guard.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><i>One more touch before the die is cast</i>, thought the marshal, as two +young officers opened the balcony doors to admit the blare of +trumpets.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>With a dramatic gesture, Hennings held up the sheaf of reports they +had just reviewed. Smiles disappeared in response to his own serious +mien.</p> + +<p>"So much for the hostilities!" he snapped. He tossed the reports to +the officer who would remain in charge. "<i>Now for the actual war!</i>"</p> + +<p>Pivoting on his heel, he led them smartly out to the ornate balcony +stairway that curved down into the sea of cheering Polluxians.</p> + +<h3>THE END</h3> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Outbreak of Peace, by Horace Brown Fyfe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE *** + +***** This file should be named 29989-h.htm or 29989-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/8/29989/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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