President Truman and his military advisers were concerned World War Three would start.

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There are only three people left in Britain who fought in World War One, only three, and they're about 110-years-old or something like that.

在英国,一战老兵,只剩下三个了,就三个,他们得有,大概110岁

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So,if you take number one--but we don't have to go through them all and I assure you we won't--if you take number one, the Ain,a-i-n,it's named after a river; or if you take number two,the Aisne,a-i-s-n-e, it's named after a river; and how many hundreds of thousands of people died along there in World War One or,you take number three,the same thing,Allier.

如果你看第一个省,我向你们保证,我们不用挨个了解,看第一个省,安省,a-i-n,来自一条河的名字,或是第二个埃纳省,a-i-s-n-e,来自于一条河的名字,有成千上万的人在这里死于,第一次世界大战,第三个,阿列省

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Great minds like Kennan and Oppenheimer helped win the Cold War and prevent World War Three altogether.

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If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.

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Then during the Second World War, he survived more than three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

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