Ludwig Thoma warned of über-patriotism in this childlike essay penned in 1902/03. Until the mid-1920s, he alerted fellow Germans to the dangers posed by extreme nationalism. Many in Munich listened...
Wonderful piece, and I Love the tongue in cheek. By the way, Madeleine Albright wrote extensively about war in her wonderful book, “The Mighty and the Almighty.” She held that war was never more internecine than when fought for “holy” reasons.
Wonderful piece, and I Love the tongue in cheek. By the way, Madeleine Albright wrote extensively about war in her wonderful book, “The Mighty and the Almighty.” She held that war was never more internecine than when fought for “holy” reasons.
Albright would have liked Thoma's "second grader" - this little essay reminds me a great deal of the daisy commercial during the Vietnam war. (1964)