Wellman’s tall-tales character of John the Balladeer has a conversation with an old man who came from forty years in the future to stop a terrible war.
I’ve come back to this day and time to keep it from starting, if I can. Come with me, John, we’ll go to the rulers of this world. We’ll make them believe, too, make them see that the war mustn’t start.

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  1. “Who Else Could I Count On?” by Manly Wade Wellman, in Who Fears the Devil? (Arkham House, 1963).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Manly Wade Wellman