Sunday 22 April 2012

"These Tremendous Years"

It doesn't really pay to try to predict the future. We have no way of knowing the outcome of the French or Greek elections.

I have been browsing through an old book (an album published by the Daily Express in 1938), called "These Tremendous Years, 1919-1938, A History in photographs".



The last page of the book ends with the words:

"And in Britain, men and women settled down again to enjoy their peace."

These were the previous two pages:



 This page ends with the Prime Minister's words to the crowd: "I believe it is peace in our time...Go home and sleep quietly in your beds".

Six months later (Spring 1939), another book came out:


Journalists, politicians, diplomats, economists, historians and futurologists are always being overtaken by events.

Update on French Elections, First Round (Le Monde)

The Telegraph

BBC

Reuters (Hans-Werner Sinn on Greece and the Euro)

The Greek Economy

The changing face of Europe?

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