1. It can't be underlined enough how important the First World War is to France's national self-conception. Trump's failure to attend the memorial is a huge diplomatic insult.
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8. To underscore the argument: the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War is a really big deal in France, much of Europe, and the Commonwealth. Imagine a foreign leader shrugging off attending similar anniversary of, say, Gettysburg.
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That’s all very well, but the hair.
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To be excruciatingly correct, you should have said "the UK." ("Britain" is a geographic designation that includes the island of Great Britain and parts of northern France—but not the island of Ireland. So not all of Britain is part of the UK, and not all of the UK is in Britain.)
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50,000 Irish died as part of “British” totals including 30,000 from the part of the island that now encompasses the Republic
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I was going to say!
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Verdun carries more memory to even India (being part of British) than US!
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