How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
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The supreme ir<strong>on</strong>y of World War II-<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> its great less<strong>on</strong>-<br />
Is that the slaughter was brought <strong>on</strong><br />
by pacifism as much as by militarism .<br />
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modern rechuolog?mitebt have stn- was the balance of miGtary powqat<br />
vitrcd to sene such puq>oscs a mass the time . Hiders darotg gamhlq<br />
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in<br />
the sense in which Winst<strong>on</strong> Chur- FmncYs lack nf wilL<br />
cltill said of it at the end-"fhere o^ae The )apanesc were equallv aware<br />
never a uvr in all Itisrarv wsier to thatrhevwerenomaechlitrrhe0uic<br />
picrcntbydmclvacti<strong>on</strong>rlnnthe<strong>on</strong>e cd States mllitanly when they<br />
which h.is just dcsolated such great bombed &arlHarbur.Tlteygamblcd<br />
areas of the globt ." The reas<strong>on</strong> whv that Nneriqsns did not have what it<br />
the war xzs not prevented had mudt takes m stay the comsc for a l<strong>on</strong>g <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
to do with the reas<strong>on</strong> why rhe West dilTicolt wa. A generati<strong>on</strong> larcr, thae<br />
ame so dosc ro losjng it . A svhole gamble might have paid off .<br />
visi<strong>on</strong> ofwar <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> peace waz involvcd The German remilicuizati<strong>on</strong> of<br />
then, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> that visi<strong>on</strong> is still zlive <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> the Rltinel<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> in 1936 svas what<br />
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linxlly ended hv the most desmucdvc as a wav of of}krting Gcrrn,rny's dcweap<strong>on</strong><br />
in history-thc atomic mographic, industrial <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> military<br />
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Iist,NbertHinatein- European nati<strong>on</strong>s . Wirh its ovm in-<br />
Why was World War Il uuncces- duntrial heartl<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> defenseless, GerLftxsixrws, sapQ 13ecause<br />
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the nati<strong>on</strong>s anacked ntanv enuld uaer launch an attack<br />
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matarmal .umn mament uf ehe democratie uad<strong>on</strong>s Gcimau indusny . All sides mcng-<br />
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