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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
Intelligence Squared
The History of the First World War
Hastings: The British people have always had a vivid idea of what they think happened in World War II, until 1941 we defied the vast evil of Nazism alone and then we defeated it with a touch of help from the Red Army and the United States. But our ideas about the first world war are thoroughly confused. We believe that Britain couldn't plausibly have remained neutral while Germany secured hegemony over the continent. Throughout the so-called July crisis, much of the Liberal Party and indeed most of the British people opposed involvement in Europe's looming war. And although Berlin bore a heavier responsibility for the continental war in 1914, our debate tonight is not about that. It addresses the narrower and
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