XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.history   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 08:51:26 +0800, Robert Bannister   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 4/07/2015 11:41 am, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 20:19:06 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 05:39:52 -0700 (PDT), Berkeley Brett   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I hope you're all well & in good spirits.   
   >>>   
   >>> Huge historical events sometimes seem to have been inevitable, and to   
   >>> the thinking of some, this is true of WWI and WWII.   
   >>>   
   >>> But were these world wars inevitable? I'd be interested in your   
   >>> opinion.   
   >>   
   >> Do you mean that if Gavrilo Princip hadn't bumped off the Archduke,   
   >> someone else would have done it?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >Austria must have been used to the various rebels and anarchists   
   >constantly attacking them.   
      
   But it was that one they used as a casus belli.   
      
      
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