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War does not decide right; it only decides might. In August a newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada printed the first known close match for the expression as mentioned previously:. Hence, the February issue was actually released in January The saying was accompanied with an acknowledgement to a Canadian newspaper: It is possible that the old newspaper pages have not yet been digitized. Some future researcher may find the phrase in the paper and determine who employed it.

On February 24, a military man named Col. Hobgood delivered a speech at a meeting of a popular service organization, and he employed an instance of the saying. Boldface has been added to excerpts: Hobgood declared in a stirring appeal for disarmament before approximately Rotarians and Rotary Anns assembled in a combined Rotary inter-city meeting and birthday party at the ballroom of the King Cotton hotel last night.

Currently, Hobgood is the first named individual who has been linked to the adage. But the expression was already in circulation before he delivered his talk. Thanks to top researcher Barry Popik who identified the February 24, citation immediately above and other valuable citations.

Two months later in April a political activist named Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre used a version of the saying during a speech delivered to members of the Universalist faith. Sayre was the daughter of former U. President Woodrow Wilson. In a Wisconsin newspaper printed another phrasing of the expression: War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. By the saying had implausibly been reassigned to Bertrand Russell within a letter to the editor published in a Nebraska newspaper.

Russell had died three decades earlier in The saying has been reassigned to other famous figures. For example, in a letter written to the editor of a Winnipeg, Canada newspaper linked the words to Winston Churchill: Things take an unexpected turn when Swinton's mischievous sister Mia Wasikowska visits them. Only Lovers Left Alive has cult film written all over it. The music is great too and blends perfectly with the atmosphere.

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Dolby Surround 7. Related news. Sep 24 The Film Stage. Cart: 0 Log in or Create an account. Select Edition Various Artists Songs for Tres Preorder. The quote attributed to Russell in the Facebook post appears to fall into the latter group. The Daily Caller News Foundation searched the roughly , records in the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University, but found no matching phrases in his manuscripts, letters or notes. The website Quote Investigator traced a variation of the quote back to a article in The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, where it appeared without attribution.