Thursday, November 23, 2006
I SOLVE WORLD WAR II
Scotsman letter - A break from my normal hobbyhorses - this one is about the origin of WW2. Edited as < > ;
I response to Eric Brown's letter (21st Nov.) < defending the Munich crisis as not being Britain's worst foreign policy failure i would like to put the opposite view.>
At the time of Munich Czechoslovakia was a serious European military power < - 2 of the 10 German armoured divisions in 1940 consisted of Czech 38T tanks seized at from them.>
Germany, at the time, was much weaker since its rearmament was less further advanced.
More importantly the Russians had an alliance with the Czechs which they < had made clear > they were prepared to honour along with the western powers < (during this period the Russians drastically cut back their supplies to the Spanish Republic which shows they were seriously preparing for action). >
Had Germany gone to war she would have been < easily > crushed , even if the generals had not immediately pulled a coup against Hitler. After the war they said they intended to - which may be treated with as much scepticism as wanted.>
Chamberlain not only threw away all our military advantages but even more disastrously made it quite clear that he intended to scupper any possible alliance with Russia leading < almost inevitably> to the Hitler Stalin Pact.
< WW2 as anything but a small local stramash need never have happened were it not for Chamberlain's action.> However pointless the Iraq war it does not compare with Munich
Much of the editing is taking out my verbiage though they also cut both factual examples (the use of Czech tanks & cutting supplies to Spain) & I am sorry "stramash" wasn't kept.
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There is also a rather silly letter from Canon Kenyon Wright today about the debate on global warming really being over because Al Gore proved it. This was started by a previous letter of mine & I hope to see my response published.
I response to Eric Brown's letter (21st Nov.) < defending the Munich crisis as not being Britain's worst foreign policy failure i would like to put the opposite view.>
At the time of Munich Czechoslovakia was a serious European military power < - 2 of the 10 German armoured divisions in 1940 consisted of Czech 38T tanks seized at from them.>
Germany, at the time, was much weaker since its rearmament was less further advanced.
More importantly the Russians had an alliance with the Czechs which they < had made clear > they were prepared to honour along with the western powers < (during this period the Russians drastically cut back their supplies to the Spanish Republic which shows they were seriously preparing for action). >
Had Germany gone to war she would have been < easily > crushed , even if the generals had not immediately pulled a coup against Hitler. After the war they said they intended to - which may be treated with as much scepticism as wanted.>
Chamberlain not only threw away all our military advantages but even more disastrously made it quite clear that he intended to scupper any possible alliance with Russia leading < almost inevitably> to the Hitler Stalin Pact.
< WW2 as anything but a small local stramash need never have happened were it not for Chamberlain's action.> However pointless the Iraq war it does not compare with Munich
Much of the editing is taking out my verbiage though they also cut both factual examples (the use of Czech tanks & cutting supplies to Spain) & I am sorry "stramash" wasn't kept.
..........................
There is also a rather silly letter from Canon Kenyon Wright today about the debate on global warming really being over because Al Gore proved it. This was started by a previous letter of mine & I hope to see my response published.
