The Man Who Could Have Ended The War
Written by
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Copyright 1916
Published in Hearst's Magazine, Feb 1916 and then in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Apr 1916. Collected in the book .
A small man with a decidedly nasty attitude towards the evils of war nevertheless tells Lavendale he has the means to bring an end to Great War. He shows his evidence via small pellets containing two drops of liquid of his invention. These unleash a very nasty and destructive short-term gas.