I've just found this report about plans to sitch off lights in public buildings on 4th August to commemorate (rather than celebrate) the outbreak of war in 1914:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/lights-out-lamps-mark-first-world-war-start
I think it's an excellent idea, and Sir Edward Grey's comment about the lights going out all over Europe almost always provokes an involuntary shiver.
I also like Alan Bennett's misquotation:
"They're rolling up the maps all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
In its own way this has a ring of truth too: it was WW2 that ended with Europe in flames and another redrawing of the map...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/lights-out-lamps-mark-first-world-war-start
I think it's an excellent idea, and Sir Edward Grey's comment about the lights going out all over Europe almost always provokes an involuntary shiver.
I also like Alan Bennett's misquotation:
"They're rolling up the maps all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
In its own way this has a ring of truth too: it was WW2 that ended with Europe in flames and another redrawing of the map...
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