And it was really a pleasure to do and its a very, like i said, its a really happy story. Great. Thank you for your time. Up next on booktv, Margaret Macmillan Come International history professor at Oxford University examines the lead up to world war i. This is just over one hour. Welcome everybody to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. I look back at the build up to the great war with Margaret Macmillan and Robert Massie. Im david amblin, editor of world policy journal and i would like to welcome our National Members participating in this meeting through the live screen. You know, i was sitting at lunch i have a little surprise for our two guests, because i checked 100 years ago today out of curiosity come november 4, 1913, the United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and gear up for war against a major power. President wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nations head of state but we didnt go to war. At least not them. That major power was on this side of
Between values and morals and the scientific technical questions, very much in economics we have to do with it. Top rate technical questions about what the model is, why is there appropriate how to interpret the statistics, whether all your conditions are satisfied. But then theres also questions about the type of society we want to live in. Theres also questions about intense distributional conflicts as well. Posterity is often times a distributional conflict and its a really hard thing to navigate at times that clarify the decisions. But there is real moral implications. Like more of the problem of the financial crisis as there is a lot of private debt in the runoff from financial institutions, buried a lot of money to invest in the craft of the public authorities had to take those onto their balance sheets. And on the question of how to pay for that, right . Is it really right to, for example, cut schools, health care and pension so we can pay off creditors who oftentimes, you know,
The great war. I am the editor of the world policy journal and i would also like to welcome the National Members participating in the meeting. You know, i said at lunch i have a surprise here because 100 years ago out of curiosity, november 4th, 1913, the United States was preparing to muster 500,000 troops into europe and the war against the major power. President wilson had given an ultimatum to the nations head of state but we didnt go to war at least not then. That major power was on this side of the atlantic and posed was the great men s, so i found this on the front page of the times and the next 17 pages there wasnt a single mention of europe so masterfully chronicled proceeding to the real world war. The second had just concluded the second stage and now youre up had deadly confrontation. So its my great pleasure to welcome margaret and hear the war that ended the peace as she was describing the close to my own heart i want to make sure we left [laughter] it paved the way towar
For war against a major power. President wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nations head of state, but we didnt go to war. At least not them. That major power was on the side of the atlantic. It was mexico. And the menace posed by its president , general victoriano huerta, was the great menace of that moment. So i found this on the front page, where else, of the new york times. Annex 17 pages of that days paper, there was not a single mention of europe, whether there was any menace from europe, where as our two featured office today have so masterfully chronicled, a quartercentury report, but nevertheless very currently, the seeds of a realworld war were already terminating. The second baltimore had just concluded, set the stage of it, and now europe was building toward a far broader and more deadly confrontation. So to examine all these roots, its my great pleasure to welcome margaret, as master a chronicle of the lead up to the conflict in her new, the war that ended peace, a
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