Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 22:24:55 EST
From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: VETERANS DAY SPECIAL: World War

Barry unearthed the following:

>This is from the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 December 1919, pg. 20,
>cols. 6-7:

>NAMING THE WAR

>As a name for the war which began in the August of 1914 and ended in the
>November of 1918, the one formally adopted by our War Department--"The World
>War"--is not a bad one. It is as good, perhaps, as any of the two or three
>others that have been suggested, and more than possibly none better will be
>found. Yet it is not a name to excite instant and enthusiastic acceptance
>and its fate with the people of the world could not be prophesied with any
>safety.
Funny--I always thought they called it "World War I"...

Larry