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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Britain’s prime minister, Herbert Asquith, received a telegram that read, “Do not worry, England, Barbados is behind you.” But if the war betrayed promises, exemplified duplicity and set horrendous precedents, Woodrow Wilson’s vision also sparked the twin hopes of economic globalization and an equitable new world order. |
 | | Appropriately, Harold Pinter, the playwright, poet and bitter critic of the invasion of Iraq, has won the award commemorating Wilfred Owen, the poet who was killed, aged 25, in the trenches and who wrote hauntingly of “the pity of war”. |
 | | Siegfried Sassoon’s bitter lament, “The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still,/ And I remember things I’d best forget” is another reminder that nine million soldiers, out of the 62 million who took up arms, were slaughtered. |
| www.telegraphindia.com /1040818/asp/opinion/story_3616535.asp (1290 words) |
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