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To end all wars summary1/31/2023 ![]() ![]() President Richard Nixon, in his "Silent Majority" speech (1969), said, "I do not tell you that the war in Vietnam is the war to end wars". Walter Lippmann wrote in Newsweek in 1967, "The delusion is that whatever war we are fighting is the war to end war", while U.S. The British staff officer Archibald Wavell, a future field marshal and viceroy of India, said despondently of the Paris Peace Conference, "After the 'war to end war', they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making the 'Peace to end Peace'." Wells himself used the phrase in an ironic way in the novel The Bulpington of Blup (1932). As it became apparent that the war had not succeeded in ending war, the phrase took on a more cynical tone. ![]() Later use ĭuring the First World War, the phrase met with some degree of skepticism. It became one of the most common catchphrases of the First World War. He used the shorter form, "the war to end war", for In the Fourth Year (1918), in which he noted that the phrase "got into circulation" in the second half of 1914. He blamed the Central Powers for starting the war and argued that only the defeat of German militarism could bring about an end. Wells published a number of articles in London newspapers that subsequently appeared as a book entitled The War That Will End War. ![]() During August 1914, immediately after the outbreak of the war, English author and social commentator H. ![]()
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