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Sunday, December 29, 2013

100 years crossroads of history

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

JOHN SIMPSON: 100 years after World War I, why I believe we stand again at the crossroads of history

Back in December 1913, not a single British newspaper carried the faintest suggestion that the worst war in human history was just months away
It seems difficult to imagine a fraught world exploding into all-out war . . . or is that precisely what people felt in December 1913?

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