further to = "in addition to; besides" ?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Further to the
> defeat of Germany and its allies

Nonsense. But it is nice to know that "war _was_ seen ... as the way ..."

That means that isn't anybody going to study war anymore, I reckon.

"Merciful speed!" as my mother would say.

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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