>Illustration shows a classroom scene with the rulers of several countries as the students, most are identified by country and showing the attributes of their leaders, such as, in the back row, “Russia” (Nicholas II), “Germany” (William II), and England (John Bull), and in the front row, “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “France” (Emile Loubet), Uncle Sam, Japan (Meiji, Emperor of Japan), and Italy (Victor Emmanuel III), and on the far left, sitting on a stool, is “Turkey” wearing a “Dunce” cap. The teacher labeled “Diplomacy”, at the front of the room, points to a blackboard on which is written “If the Boer War cost Great Britain $825,000,000 what would a world’s war cost?” While most of the leaders ponder this question, Russia and Japan glare at each other. There are three wastebaskets filled with weapons.
At first I read it as “The BEER war costed Britain….” and was confused
I bet it didn’t cost us 825m DOLLARS at all.
The Uncle Sam did not need to attend that lesson, he just went to war when Hearst and Pulitzer wrote so.
Is that guy looking back supposed to be a japanese?
I like that the teacher looks like Mrs. Doubtfire
It was a popular belief before great war, that a major european war would be so expensive no one would ever risk it. There is a book “the great delusion” about this very idea.
whos the guy with the dunce hat?
825 million 1913 dollars (cant find earlier) would be eq. to $2,2 trillion today.
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They would find out soon enough.
It would cost 4 Empires at least:
Turkey
Austria
Russia
Germany
Interested they know WW1 is coming
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>Illustration shows a classroom scene with the rulers of several countries as the students, most are identified by country and showing the attributes of their leaders, such as, in the back row, “Russia” (Nicholas II), “Germany” (William II), and England (John Bull), and in the front row, “Austria” (Franz Joseph I), “France” (Emile Loubet), Uncle Sam, Japan (Meiji, Emperor of Japan), and Italy (Victor Emmanuel III), and on the far left, sitting on a stool, is “Turkey” wearing a “Dunce” cap. The teacher labeled “Diplomacy”, at the front of the room, points to a blackboard on which is written “If the Boer War cost Great Britain $825,000,000 what would a world’s war cost?” While most of the leaders ponder this question, Russia and Japan glare at each other. There are three wastebaskets filled with weapons.
At first I read it as “The BEER war costed Britain….” and was confused
I bet it didn’t cost us 825m DOLLARS at all.
The Uncle Sam did not need to attend that lesson, he just went to war when Hearst and Pulitzer wrote so.
Is that guy looking back supposed to be a japanese?
I like that the teacher looks like Mrs. Doubtfire
It was a popular belief before great war, that a major european war would be so expensive no one would ever risk it. There is a book “the great delusion” about this very idea.
whos the guy with the dunce hat?
825 million 1913 dollars (cant find earlier) would be eq. to $2,2 trillion today.