WORDS THAT MADE WARS.
Great wars from little causes spring: at least that has been the case in many fierce conflicts of the past. A despatch altered in one or two pointa by Bismarck brought on the FrancoGerman war. Palmerston said facetiously that only three men in Europe ever knew what the Schleswig-Holstein troubles, which led to two wars, were about, and two of them died before the conflicts began, while he (the third man) had forgotten. A slighting reference made by Frederick the Great of Prussia to Madame Pompadour of France was said to have been one of the causes of the Seven Years’ War. John Bright declared that England nnd her allies drifted into the Crimean War without realising it until after the commencement of hostilities, and that, moreover, they did not know what they were fighting for even after they started.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XIX, 4 November 1899, Page 829
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144WORDS THAT MADE WARS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XIX, 4 November 1899, Page 829
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