In a more tragic example of historical irony, what people now refer to as the " First World War " was called by H . G . Wells " The war that will end war ", which soon became " The war to end war " and " The War to End All Wars ", and this became a widespread truism, almost a clich?
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As Dickerman later recounted, they " really believed this was a war to end wars and make the world safe for democracy . " In 1918, they both traveled to London to assist the women-staffed Endell Street Military Hospital and " scrub floors or perform whatever other chores were required . " Cook would, with less than two weeks training, begin to make artificial limbs for soldiers that had lost an arm or a leg.
