The phrase "separate peace" refers to a nation's agreement to cease military hostilities with another, even though the former country had previously entered into a military alliance with other states that remain at war with the latter country. For example, at the start of World War I (1914–1918), Russia was a member, with the United Kingdom and France, of the Triple Entente, which went to war with the Central Powers formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. After the fall of Russian monarch Nicholas II and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks, Russia defaulted on its commitments to the Triple Entente by signing a separate peace with Germany and its allies in 1917. This armistice was followed on 3 March 1918 by the formal signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Additionally, this concept has often been tied to the novel "A Separate Peace". The concept would be tied into the aforementioned novel in the sense that the title is a way of subliminally saying that the characters in the story have, in one way or another, created separate peaces such as with World War I and II cases. This is evident as the story takes place during World War II
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“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)
“Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease,
Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;
Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share,
Go, look within, and ask if peace be there:
If peace be his—that drooping weary sire,
Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire,
Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand
Turns on the wretched hearth th’ expiring brand.”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)