Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:05:27 +0100, Szymon Sokó?
<szymon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:47:23 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

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Well, at least we stop being zenophobic when Europe gets itself
into a messy huge war. It does take us a while, though.
A while and 128 passengers of Lusitania, if I remember correctly.

Nope. German attempt to bring Mexico into the war on the Central
Powers side.

Lusitania: 1915.
Zimmerman telegram: 1917.
US entry into war: 1917.
--
Doug Wickström
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