it is only known to the letters of the certain world war. so that s why i do believe that corporation is the second pillar of peace today, how to work together and i m a strong defender of that. some times people consider it too long very painful but for me it is one of the very important outcomes of the two world wars. they are negotiationing, discussing is always better than war and it s very important. we need to u.s. commitment for such a corporation. your country has a very important role. it wasn t i mean during the past decade the u.s. played in certain ways the last resort of
in 1909 wrote a book explaining that war wean the major powers was so costly as to the unimaginable. the great illusion became an international best seller. a few years later a generation of europeans was destroyed in the carnage of world war i. could we be similarly complacent today? there are serious states men who believe so. he said i don t want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers that have forgotten its own past. as he wrote in his book the states men of 1914 stumbled into a world war without ever realizing the magnitude of the dangers of their isolated decisions and nondecisions. he is not simply talking.
that in spite of some backsliding here and election there progress is? world leaders commemorated the end of the largest and bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen. it marked a turning point in human history. the end of four massive empires t. entry of the united states into global power politics. perhaps the most significant intellectual was the end of the idea of inevidetable progress. before the war began people lived through economic growth, technological revolutions and increasing globalization. it was widely believed that ugly trend lines were temporary, to be overwhelmed by the on ward march of progress.
anniversary of the end of world war i. this weekend he gathered scores of war leaders including president donald trump to pay tribute with him. i talked to him about his relationship with trump, ability about the great war and whether there is a danger of discord and miscalculation and tragedy, about the rise of populism and how he is fighting it at home and abroad and about his plan to make france great again. but first here is my take. when confronting bad news these days many of us toeend to assum it is a bump on the road. president obama was fond of invoking the famous quote. it bends towards justice. could we be wrong in assuming
been touring around northern and eastern france, the areas of the country that were hardest hit by world war i and hardest hit by economics. i was with him on thursday as he toured in an area. with him was the chairman and ceo of the parent company. they announced a new line of vanz would be made adding 200 new jobs in the struggling region. he campaigned on a platform of france s economy. it is a difficult challenge. by most accounts he has delivered making deals with unions, weatherering months of of on again off again strikes and enduring a difficult climate. he promises to persist with the next round including pension reforms next year. after macron s tour he had to get back to work so we met in an office just off the factory