Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 22:24:55 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: VETERANS DAY SPECIAL: World War



Barry unearthed the following:



This is from the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 December 1919, pg. 20,

cols. 6-7:



NAMING THE WAR



As a name for the war which began in the August of 1914 and ended in the

November of 1918, the one formally adopted by our War Department--"The World

War"--is not a bad one. It is as good, perhaps, as any of the two or three

others that have been suggested, and more than possibly none better will be

found. Yet it is not a name to excite instant and enthusiastic acceptance

and its fate with the people of the world could not be prophesied with any

safety.

Funny--I always thought they called it "World War I"...



Larry