Greg Thielmann

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Remarks by Greg ThielmannGrinnell CollegeApril 1, 2019I’m glad to be back in Grinnell on the first day of classes after your spring break.  I hope the “April Fool’s Day” moniker does not get attached to either the speaker or the audience.I wanted to start with a theme I encountered in a a book, titled The Internationalists, about the Kellogg-Briand “Peace Pact” – the 1928 treaty, signed in Paris, which outlawed war.I had learned long ago that this agreement was naïve and utterly feckless, spectacularly failing to prevent an even more cataclysmic world war than the one which spawned it.  But…

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