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World Wars
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Full-blooded democracy still remains a brave new experiment, the history of ancient Athens notwithstanding. It would be unwise to assume that its victory across the globe is inevitable, for democracy is not always a simple mode of governing. It is almost forgotten that one reason why in this century the world stood three times on the verge of chaos — during two world wars and one world depression — was that the leading democracies were almost as prone to accidents and blunders as were their auth
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― In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century
― In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century
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They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.
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― Wanderers of Time
― Wanderers of Time



































