I just noticed that Stimson used the term “first World War” (page 2).
Have I been asleep or is this a new term that is showing up in the 1941 vocabulary?
Have I been asleep or is this a new term that is showing up in the 1941 vocabulary?
That could be a first. Sort of implies this current fracas is the "second World War." I saw that term (second world war) used in a theoretical way back in early 1939 but not since the war actually started.
Hanson Baldwin used the term “second World War” in an article he wrote on September 4th, 1939. As far as I know that was the first use of that term in these papers. I have to imagine as we have moved forward the terminology has been there already is becoming more and more common place.