George Bernard Shaw Quotes
YOU AND I AT WAR. CAN ABSURDITY GO NO FURTHER, MY FRIENDLIEST WISHES GO WITH YOU UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish Nobel Laureate in Literature, Telegram to his German Translator, Beginning of WWI, August 1914
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Responding to reporter’s question about colatteral enviornmental damage from the result of bombing and fires.
There was deep hostility and suspicion between Germany and England for several years before WWI. See {642066}.
The first Bishop in Britain, sent by Pope Gregory in 597. This was in large part fulfilled in 607 when Ethelfrith led Saxon troops to Wales killing many including 200 priests who had been sent to pray for the Welsh.
He was located in Syria at the time.
There were some anti-war forces in Germany in World War I.
This quotation illustrates degree of hatred that the French had for the English for the hundreds of years of their European superpower rivalry.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
