XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.history   
   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In alt.usage.english Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   One of my high school teachers told us WWI could have been avoided   
   if the Archduke Franz Ferdinand wasn't so vain about his personal   
   appearance.  To make certain that his uniform fit properly he   
   had himself sewn into it each morning.  The buttons on it had no   
   purpose except to look good.  After he was shot the doctors lost   
   precious time while he was bleeding to death because they had to   
   cut him out of his clothing.  Had they been able to remove his   
   jacket immediately they probably could have saved his life.   
      
   --   
   F. Wayne Brown    
      
         ur sag9-ga ur-tur-še3 ba-an-kur9   
   "A dog that is played with turns into a puppy." (Sumerian proverb)   
      
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