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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Vast Differences From 1914 Are Noted by Paris

It's scary how wrong they were on this.

4 posted on 09/10/2009 5:57:51 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; All
Here is another instance of what to call the war, from "German Gains in Poland Add to Task of Allies," by Hanson W. Baldwin:

The first nine days of the Second World War ended last week with German legions - in a practical field demonstrtion of the technique of "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war) sweeping to the gates of Warsaw.

He ends his essay with a safe but accurate prediction:

The war promises to be long; Germany has won her first victory; she will probably win many more, but she will probably lose the war.

12 posted on 09/10/2009 12:05:45 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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