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Peace Overtures

The fruits of military leave: a French woman wearing the kepi of 1914-15 hold an infant twins, a boy and a girl, one in each arm. Text: Les suites d'une Permission The consequences of leave Patriotic 1105 GMorigetz Reverse: ISQ. Plantine: A Noyer, Paris - visé No. (au verso) Fabrication Française

The fruits of military leave: a French woman wearing the kepi of 1914-15 hold an infant twins, a boy and a girl, one in each arm.

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Les suites d'une Permission



The consequences of leave



Patriotic 1105

GMorigetz



Reverse:

ISQ. Plantine: A Noyer, Paris - visé No. (au verso)

Fabrication Française

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Peace Overtures during the war include:

On January 12, in Vienna, Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the Austrian Council of Ministers that it was necessary to look for a compromise peace. See quotation.

United States President Woodrow Wilson called for 'peace without victory' in his Address to Congress on January 22, 1917.

Pope Benedict XV issued his message of peace on August 1, 1917.