Yes, this is the famous quote of Churchill in WWII.<br><br>There were plans in 1928 for a war with America, i was amazed when I came across the plans,...
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trappedslider
May 9, 2001 10:29 pm
One moment of hesitation by Harry Truman veiled this world in darkness. In August 1945, as Stalin massed his forces for an invasion of Japan-controlled ...
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slip_kid33
May 10, 2001 12:58 am
Contrary to what Canucks think of the "imperialist Yanks", I read somewhere that the Canadian Defence Ministry had a plan in case hostilities broke out, to...
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richard_roper
May 10, 2001 5:49 am
yes, I think this how it would go in the early stages. Wilhelm II, smarting from his lack of success as a mediatopr over Morrocco, is only to eager to try and...
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slip_kid33
May 10, 2001 11:04 am
I believe the Canadians actually distrusted the USA and their plan was orginated from Ottawa, but am not certain. <br> Off the coast of Maine, the first ...
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richard_roper
May 10, 2001 9:29 pm
Yes, most of my info is on the possible "War of 1928" and the Canadians may well have had good grounds to be suspicious.<br><br>In OTL the Yanks had vast ...
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joseph_green2000
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May 12, 2001 2:59 pm
Sorry to be British here, but you are tending to forget the Royal Navy was the best trained Navy of the time.<br><br>They had had more experience at fighting...
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slip_kid33
May 12, 2001 7:32 pm
I would concur that the British Navy was second to none, once upon a time because no one else had a fleet to rival them on the high seas in the 19th Century...
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richard_roper
May 12, 2001 9:36 pm
I'm sorry, I can't agree. If in the ATL the fighting had lasted "13 weeks", the RN would have had no more experience than the USN.<br>In fact, Rooseveldt in...
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slip_kid33
May 13, 2001 12:04 am
France gets a new military government on Christmas Day, 1919 headed by a Marshal Petain. The Kaiser, knowing Petain is anti-English as much as anti-German, ...
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joseph_green2000
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May 13, 2001 8:00 am
Colour me surprised. I don't think you have ever agreed with anything I have said Richard. LOL...
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richard_roper
May 14, 2001 8:51 am
Sorry about that, but TR. was an even bigger believer in Sea Power and enthusiast for Mahan's book that us ,whom he got it from.<br>As president again he would...
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trappedslider
May 18, 2001 10:34 pm
It has been said that the history of our nation would amaze even the most learned of historians. <br>Over a hundred and fifty years ago our nation was founded....
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slip_kid33
May 19, 2001 5:21 pm
On February 28, 1920 the Royal Marines finally take the Panama Canal Zone, as American Forces under now General Chesty Pulller blow the locks up in their ...
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richard_roper
May 20, 2001 10:23 am
The War Cabinet have secretly shipped the fleet of "Flower" and "Insect" classes of dismantlable river gunboats, built for the Danube in 1914-15 and in store...
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slip_kid33
May 20, 2001 3:40 pm
Patton is miffed at having to retreat from Ottawa and burns what is left of the capital to the ground. His army with McArthur's are ordered to destroy the ...
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richard_roper
May 21, 2001 10:32 am
May 14th - secret convention signed by TR's representative, The Sultan's gov't and Russia to impliment plans for Middle East.<br><br>Churchill, learning of...
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slip_kid33
May 21, 2001 11:19 am
British Home Guard resorts to the usage of poison gas in attempt to halt the German drive on London. The King is evacuates to Birmingham and most of the ...
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richard_roper
May 22, 2001 9:41 am
On prepared plans, 100,000 Russian troops pour over the passes of the Hindu Kush into British India. The Australia convoy is diverted to Bombay.<br><br>The...
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slip_kid33
May 22, 2001 10:48 am
TR is miffed at the Armistice in actuality. A late summer offensive was planned to invade Canada with 1,000,000 troops and cut off the beleagured and over...
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richard_roper
May 22, 2001 8:53 pm
The French President offers Versailles for the Peace Conference. A Peace Conference is summoned by the King-Kaiser who uses his prestige as a Peace Diplomat to...
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slip_kid33
May 23, 2001 10:08 am
TR manages to get some of what he wants at Versailles:<br>1. Independent Quebec<br>2. Vancouver<br>3. Canada demilitarized from any European troops.<br>4. Hong...
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richard_roper
May 23, 2001 9:47 pm
The gold payments quickly produce a gold drain on the Bank of England, ( strangely enough they did have relatively small reserves compared to other nations !),...
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trappedslider
May 23, 2001 10:48 pm
Welcome to Auckland, grand capital of the New Zealand Commonwealth! The multicultural city of sails is the home of the United Nations and the chief contributer...
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slip_kid33
May 25, 2001 11:07 pm
Let us juxtapose that in colonial America in the 17th/18th Century that the cotton and tobacco crops in the south were struck with a plight spanning not a...
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slip_kid33
May 25, 2001 11:19 pm
Another one here: Let us think if Joseph P. Kennedy would have not enlisted the Mafia to stuff and/or throw out ballots in Illinois during the 1960 election ...
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slip_kid33
May 25, 2001 11:26 pm
Hitler is distraught over his live in niece/lover's suicide in 1931, and takes the 'easy way out' in his grief shortly after. The Nazi Party was the largest...
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richard_roper
May 26, 2001 11:55 am
Nixon was in fact a very savvy realpolitician and would have pushed Civil Rights more. <br>Kissinger would probably have come on board as a whizz-kid in 1961...
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slip_kid33
May 26, 2001 2:46 pm
Yes, in spite of RN's personality quirks, he was indeed the better man over JFK - who was quite shallow and undeserving of the personality adoration following...
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joseph_green2000
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May 26, 2001 5:03 pm
Have read a bit on the Cold War and I agree with you. Nixon was a good President, ignoring Watergate. <br><br>The only question I have is, would Nixon have the...
