It’s difficult thinking about the eradication of poverty when we are warned by military leaders and newspaper columnists that we might be heading towards a world war. Such a frightening, fearful thought is followed by analysis, with references to Hitler and the 1930s and how we have to avoid being appeasers before Hamas and those that are attacking the west and its allies.
A more useful comparison might be the First World War and the assassination in Sarajevo, in summer 1914, of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Such an
