A sign of the times .

- "and so I offer my game,for a particular as well as a general end ;and let us put this prancing monarch and that silly scare-monger, and these excitable 'patriots' and those adventurers,and all the practitioners of Welt Politik, into one vast Temple of War, with cork carpets everywhere, and plenty of little trees and little houses to knock down, and cities and fortresses, and unlimited soldiers-tons; cellars- full - and let them lead their own lives there away from us " H.G. Wells Little Wars 1913 

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