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Chapter 1: War - What is it Good For?
For no particular reason, I have been reading a 1939 Australian school English text book.
At the end of the first chapter I found the following:
EXERCISES AND SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION
Beverley Nichols has suggested that if we are to think properly about war as it waged today, we should drop the word "war" and substitute the word "mass-murder" because the meaning of "war" for most people is inappropriate to what is actually done by armies to-day. Do you agree with this? And what is the meaning you give to the word "war"? [p12]
I don't know how I would have tackled the question at the age of 15, but this is what I would say about it today....
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