The Fantastical Adventures of Leutenlieb of the House of Munchausen by Shlomo Kalo

Author:Shlomo Kalo
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: DAT Publications
Published: 2017-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

BOOK TWO

URGENT CALL TO THE COLORS

The war broke out, which in time would come to be known as the Second World War, to distinguish it from the previous one, the First World War. This simplistic numerical sequence calls to mind the succession of Popes – Paul the First, Second etc., or of kings – Henry the First, Second, Fifth, Eighth etc. or – Louis the First, Second etc., down to that Louis who was claimed by the guillotine, losing his head but not his number; this simplistic numerical sequence will make the task of historians easier when they are required to fit suitable names to wars of the future – Third World War, Fourth and Fifth and so on, instead of becoming entangled in tiresome nomenclatures of the order of "Holy War", "Hundred Years War", "Wars of the Roses", which tax the memory of students and teachers of history alike.

Immediately after the outbreak of this war I received an urgent conscription order by way of the consul-general in Karkamello, a sugar-cane republic on the edge of the Indian Ocean. The good-natured consul, serving simultaneously as representative of 18 "civilized states" as he called them, distributed call-up notices with a generous hand to the citizens of nations which were officially at war with one another. Because of the equable temperament of the consul and the conciliatory atmosphere which always prevailed in his consulate, no violence erupted while the orders were being distributed – neither fisticuffs nor slanderous exchanges. The lone Portuguese ship which had anchored for a whole month at the narrow jetty of Karkamello, the "Patience", en route to Lisbon, took all of us on board, "enemies" and "allies" alike, and transported us to Lisbon, the capital city, whence we all of us went our separate ways.

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