Cold War; Shapiro's "hotly awaited tome"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> Didn't I/we find "Cold War" before this?

I believe Barry has posted 1939 for "cold war."

The Yale Book of Quotations has the following information about "cold war"
(in addition to the Orwell, Baruch, and Swope usages):

In 1938 the _Nation_ had a headline "Hitler's Cold War" (26 Mar.).
According to Luis Garcia Arias, _El Concepto de Guerra y la Denominada
"Guerra Fria" (1956), a thirteenth-century Spanish writer, Don Juan
Manuel, used "guerra fria" to refer to the coexistence of Islam and
Christendom in medieval Spain.

Fred Shapiro


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