1. Then and Now 当时和现在.docxVIP

Then and Now 过去与现在 By Harold Nicolson 哈罗德·尼克尔森 ? During the 25 years which have intervened between the First and Second German Wars—that is, between the night of 4 August 1914 and the morning of Sunday, 3 September 1939—I have often asked my friends to tell me in what way, and in what manner, they first became aware that Great Britain was at war. There had, on each occasion, been a preliminary stage during which was seemed to become every hour more inevitable; on each occasion, there had been announcements??in the newspapers and speeches in the House of Commons; but what interested me particul