"a look back at the build-up to the great war" with margaret macmillan and robert massie. i'm david andelman. i'm the editor of world policy journal, and i'd also like to welcome see if our national members participating in this meeting through the live stream. i was saying at lunch that i oppose a price for our two guests here, because i checked 100 years ago today just out of curiosity, november 4, 1913. the united states was preparing to muster 5000 troops in gear up for war against a major power. president wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nation's head of state, but we didn't go to war. at least not them. that major power was on the side of the atlantic. it was mexico. and the menace posed by its president, general victoriano huerta, was the great menace of that moment. so i found this on the front page, where else, of "the new york times." annex 17 pages of that day's paper, there was not a single mention of europe, whether there was any menace from europe, where as our two featured office today have so masterfully chronicled, a quarter-century report, but n

"a look back at the build-up to the great war" with margaret macmillan and robert massie. i'm david andelman. i'm the editor of world policy journal, and i'd also like to welcome see if our national members participating in this meeting through the live stream. i was saying at lunch that i oppose a price for our two guests here, because i checked 100 years ago today just out of curiosity, november 4, 1913. the united states was preparing