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ECO中文网  · 公众号  ·  · 2018-10-09 17:51
ON JUNE 29th 1918 Martín Salazar, Spain’s inspector-general of health, stood up in front of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Madrid. He declared, not without embarrassment, that the disease which was ravaging his country was to be found nowhere else in Europe.1918年6月29日,西班牙卫生总监马丁·萨拉查站在马德里皇家医学院前,不无尴尬地宣称,肆虐该国的这一疾病在欧洲其他地方没有出现。 Infact, that was not true. The illness in question, influenza, had been sowingmisery in France and Britain for weeks, and in America for longer, but Salazar did not know this because the governments of those countries, a group then atwar with Germany and its allies, had made strenuous efforts to suppress such potentially morale-damaging news. Spain, by contrast, was neutral, and thepress had freely reported on the epidemic since the first cases ………………………………

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