In January 1914 few Europeans imagined that, seven months later, their political and military leaders would plunge the world into a cataclysmic war. Public attention in most capitals was elsewhere. Britain was preoccupied with the Irish home rule crisis and other domestic troubles. Le tout Paris was about to engross itself in the Caillaux affair, in which a French politician’s wife shot dead Le Figaro’s editor, stood trial for murder and was acquitted.
1914年1月的時候，歐洲很少有人能想到，7個月後，他們的政治和軍事領袖將把全世界拖入一場災難性的戰爭當中。在歐洲大多數國家的首都，公衆的注意力正被其他事務所吸引。英國正忙著應付愛爾蘭自治運動和國內的其他麻煩。所有巴黎人的注意力即將被「卡約(Caillaux)事件」所吸引，在這一事件中，法國政治家約瑟夫•卡約的妻子開槍打死了《費加羅報》(Le Figaro)主編，以謀殺罪接受了審判，但被判無罪。
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