More Against the Days

[rich]

I think if there was any inkling of a major row between the big powers in
the early part of the 20th C, many probably thought it'd be short and
victorious campaign (funny that the french, the british, and the germans all
thought the same)

geez, were they wrong

rich




>  It might be argued that WW1 was, at the time, the
> foreseeable conclusion to an arms' race that began in the 1880s, as well
> as,
> eg, the scramble for Africa and other colonialist conflicts. One can see
> how
> contemporary commentators (pro- or anti-Imperialism) might have used the
> phrase in those two ways.
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