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From: jonellis AT tucson DOT princeton DOT edu (Jonathan Ellis)
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Subject: World War One (was:Re: malloc()/free()/heap and thrashing)
Date: 16 Aug 1995 17:51:35 GMT
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In article <DDE6vw DOT qr AT jade DOT mv DOT net> John Carter <ECE AT dwaf-hri DOT pwv DOT gov DOT za> writes:

>"Lest we forget..."

>The First World war ended at 11am on the 11th of November 1918. The 
>victors wrote the history books and laid the blame wholly on the 
>Germans. Later more scholarly and less propagandist books, such as 
>"The origins of the World War" by S.B. Fay apportion the blame on all 
>sides, notably on the French, who afterwards played the martyred 
>victim... 

	That is a crock.  Try reading "The Guns of August," a thoroughly
researched book by Barbara Tuchman.  It convincingly demonstrates who
was responsible for the first world war.  (Short answer: German megalomania.)

>And who are now playing with Nuclear weapons....

	Ah, the real point.  I don't see how we can blame the French for
acting in accordance with their own self-interest, without being hypocritical.
Nor do I see what the point of your WWI misinformation was, except perhaps
to make us think that because the French were not blameless eighty years
ago, their acts become somehow more reprehensible.

Jonathan Ellis