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On the first day of World War 1, the NYT invented an invasion of Switzerland

By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias Aug 3, 2014, 10:56pm EDT

Back in 1914 before the internet ruined journalism, you could misreport an invasion of Switzerland and there was no way to fix it:

Switzerland

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