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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Fredrik Bajer

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Fredrik Bajer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 21
Died: 1922
Died: January 22
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