[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Ping.

[jdfromny]

Too bad Obama hasn’t learned anything from history. And haven’t we learned either. Yielding to Statists is never good for anyone in the long run.

[beebuster2000]

thanks

[aynrandfreak]

Thanks for posting these. This is real history!

[BroJoeK]

Btw, would it be fair to say that this was Hitler’s last bloodless victory? Next comes Poland, which he won easily, but not just by bluff.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The possibilities of weaning Italy from the Axis, which had loomed so large in British official calculations, were . . . vanishing. On March 26 Mussolini made a violent speech asserting Italian claims against France in the Mediterranean. Secretly he was planning for the extension of Italian influence in the Balkans and the Adriatic, to balance the German advance in Central Europe. His plans for invading Albania were now ready.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

3/27/39 Update

At a Foreign Policy Committee meeting of the British Cabinet, the Ministers decide to side with Poland, rather than try for a multi-nation agreement involving the Soviet Union.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/prelude-to-war/prelude-to-war-index.htm

[PeterPrinciple]

“If, contrary to expectations, Britain and France raise objections, Lithuania will immediately ask them whether they are willing to defend her and Memel against attack. The answer to such a question is regarded as so obvious that it is not even expected to arise.”

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One wonders how different things might have turned out if Britain and France had stood up at this point. But WWI was still a fresh memory for them and no one wanted to go to war.