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 On July 1 l'Humanité printed the story of a soldier who turned to some women as he was taking his place in the train and said: "Have some children in order that the bourgeoisie may send them to the shambles at the age of twenty." On July 24 l'Humanité printed a letter in which a soldier writes: "Again we are the victims, as were our parents, we who demand nothing but peace and who have no interest in making war." In the course of this letter the writer refers to "our great national butchers, heartless and without guts."

The Central Committee of Action, in its appeal to soldiers and sailors, wrote:

Two days later, on July 22, l'Humanité printed the following comment on the war: