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Thread #133984   Message #3599693
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
09-Feb-14 - 04:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Paxman and his crew manage to whip the carpet from under your feet every time he opens his mouth.

"Most people seemed to have accepted that the war had to be fought.
To honour treaties. To defend the empire. To protect Britain.
And, what else were they supposed to do?
To sit back and watch as Germany amassed an empire from Russia to the shores of the English Channel?
Now war had broken out, almost everyone backed it.
Most trade unions suspended strikes, which had been common."

"The war was dreadful, and it was bloody, but unless Britain was prepared to see the rest of Europe turned into some enormous German colony, it had to be fought, and most British people saw that"

In those 2 quotes, spoken slowly and carefully to camera in the programmes, "Paxman and his crew" (The Open University) endorse two of my three viewpoints, which really are all I have claimed in this whole debate.
Do not just call that a lie.
Find one.