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1930s >> 1939 >> no-421-september-1939

This Month’s Quotation: Jan Bloch

“There is a possibility of a European War in the future . . . .  What basis is there for the supposition that the next war will definitely settle this or that question, or what is more, settle all quarrels between nations?”

Jan Bloch (1899)

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