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Ethel kissed as if she had one minute left to live.
That's the way it's done! LOL
My fate is in the hands of two monarchs, Walter thought, the tsar and the emperor. One is foolish, the other geriatric; yet they control the destiny of Maud and me and countless millions more Europeans. What an argument against monarchy!
Meanwhile the subject peoples of the Austrian Empire were starting to think they might rule themselves—which was why the Bosnian nationalist Gavrilo Princip had shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
One interpretation. The people of Bosnia were ethnically and cuturaly linked to Serbia. They wanted our from underneath AHE rule to reunite with their historically and culturally link people.
A friendly Londoner gave him a rapid stream of detailed instructions, every word of which he found completely incomprehensible. He thanked the man and walked out of the station.
The exact same happened to me!
President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”
Throughout July, August, September, and October the British army threw
its young soldiers across no-man’s-land to be mown down by machine guns. Again and again the newspapers hailed a victory, but the telegrams told another story.
This is the story of "The Great War" succinctly stated in a single sentence.
I don't believe there was an Oval Office until the Whie House renovation and the addition of the West Wing under Truman .
“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.”
True then. SO TRUE now!
“Exactly. What about Rhodesia, and Barbados, and India? We can’t be expected to ask the natives’ permission before we civilize them.
“How do the French feel about it?” Johnny grinned. “Clemenceau said Wilson was trying to outdo the Almighty. ‘God himself only came up with ten points,’ he said.”
His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.
Fox News "fair and independent" LOL
