[…] their large black eyes scanned the drawings with the owlish look of wisdom peculiar to connoisseurs.

Indeed, for much of the Arab world, the Turkish term Seferberlik, which originally referred to conscription, has come to represent the panoply of civilian suffering in the Great War.

My Bettina rather held back. She isn't one of the mixy kind.

Where have you been for the last 40 years ? Obviously in some dimension that runs parallel to your own. Perhaps you should return to yours, and your statement might be greeted with a little less incredulity... By apologists for red fascism you mean.