Couldn’t they see that every bomb blast and every innocent maimed or killed just undermined what little support they had around the world? They showed courage, he would give them that, but they chose the wrong weapons. Why did they prefer bullets and bombs when wisdom and a little eloquence could seize the day? And now bullets and bombs seemed to be the only weapons they had left. Their irrepressible din had drowned out the soft voices of reason in the collective mind of world opinion.