Posted on 03/25/2006 3:11:13 PM PST by freedom44
"There was a great improvement in things like trains running on time."
"Am I the only one who doesn't see why this is news worthy?"
No, you're not!
Seems only certain opinions are allowed by you?
Well, now that you put it that way, it does sound absurd....(thinking of Monty Python's sendup of Royal members as stuttering, sillywalking, inbred twits..)
Didn't mean to jump all over people..just too quick on the trigger and perhaps a bit too sensitive to a '20-20 hindsight' reading of history...being an (amateur) historian few things tick me off as quickly (particularly as I attended commie schools as a kid before I emigrated to the USA, and let me tell you, those people cornered the market on that stuff....)
If you would have asked Brits in 1936 who was loonier, Hitler or Churchill, most probably would have said Churchill. He was a 'voice in the wilderness' when he was warning them about Hitler.
No mention of Joe Kennedy, who served as ambassador to britain and told FDR we should support Hitler? Gee, why not?
I wasn't talking to you.
See Al's response in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603094/posts?page=45#45
Do you see the absurdity of royals - privileged, wealthy people - being jealous of successful others simply because they're of a certain religion/ethnicity?
"Joe Kennedy didn't like the English, but Jack loved them. Go figure. Jack I guess was more assimilated."
No, Jack just "banged" more English girls.
The Rothschilds were wealthy, educated and funding wars.
Is it any wonder there was enmity abroad.
WHAT? Say - you don't believe that, do you? I mean, was the last Pope Polish or what?
Oh, wait...NEVERMIND... :>)
We don't have to agree, we can even say we don't agree.
We don't even have to give an alternate opinion, but we do have to allow others to speak without being told to STOP stating our opinion.
You forget that Jack also banged - and MARRIED a 5-6 years older blonde woman who was considered a possible Nazi spy by Hoover (she had once interviewed Hitler) - the marriage was quickly annulled via Old Joe's connections, the evidence destroyed, and Jack shipped off to the Pacific theater...
I didn't demand that he stop. I didn't hit the Abuse button. I asked please. That's not intimidation.
The Dutchess of Windsor slandered? It's not slander if it's true. There is a book about the Nazi connections, including a photo of her posing in a brothel. She snared him with Eros and then treated him like a dog after they were married. Justice for both. She wanted to be a royal and could not be.
Abdicating for the woman he loved was touching but there was really more to it than that.
Papa Kennedy hid from the blitz, would not stay in London during the bombing. The King and Queen stayed, but he ran. Does that remind us of Teddy?
Kennedy was so disgraced that FDR recalled him and had him met by his (FDR's) mistress, as I recall.
Eleanor kept JFK from running a VP under Stevenson, a man who shot and killed his friend as a boy but never talked about the incident. (No, that's not slander.) Also Stevenson's grades were kept under lock and key because the "intellectual" flunked out. Ha. Another brain like Gore who managed to flunk divinity school.
--no --he didn't marry Inga Arvad---
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