There was not a single day that WWII started. It started in 1933 when Japan 
looked westward to China, and a bit later when Italians looked southward to 
Abyssinia and Hitler, rather later late in the game looked east in 1939 to 
Poland and beyond. WW II started on multiple days from 1933-1939. mike

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From: Allen Esterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 01-Sep-08 05:21 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Why It's "The Day World War II Started" Day
 
Re WW2 Chris Green wrote:
>By contrast, England, France, Italy, and the US, lost about
>a half million each.

Sorry to bring this up again, and, yes it's trivial, but Chris actually
means Britain (or the United Kingdom). In this context especially, I don't
think many Scots, Welsh and Irish would think it trivial, just ask Sean
Connery. :- )

N.B. Mainland Europeans are even worse than Americans on conflating
"England" with "Britain".

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org

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