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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg
Peace, War, Giving
The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.