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Posted on 09/19/2009 6:21:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
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Remember when Rumsfeld called Western Europe”? Europe and the liberals went nuts? Obammuist did worse. He put a death sentence on Eastern Europe. He chose the exact date when Poland was invaded to make sure they understood his allegiance with the communist. . It looks like Iran and Russia is on the move. To the ignorant out there, it was just another decision dems reps disagree on, but this WILL not just change the lives of Eastern Europe, but also us in the US. Russia and Iran (who struck an oil deal) will be on the move. Chavez and Castro...other marxist/ communist will work on this part of the world (plus own own maxist=democrats in this country) Israel will defend herself before Iran attacks and I think we all better make sure our lives are right with God. If you don’t believe in prophecy, better start watching and listening to what is happening in the world. Anyone read Joel Rosenberg’s books (The Last Jihad...) & hear his teachings on Israel and the middle east? He is a Christian, but was Jewish.
One of the German princes was killed in the western offensive (I think Holland, but it may have been Belgium) and received a state funeral. The Nazis were alarmed by the outburst of Royalism, and Hitler ordered that none of the Royals could participate in future combat operations.
On a separate note, it’s interesting to see that even at this early date, the British are showing their hypocritical nature. It’s a great evil and a cause for war when Hitler invades Poland, but Stalin’s invasion doesn’t draw much more than a yawn. And they are already conspiring to violate Norway’s neutrality (no mention of the proposed invasion of Sweden yet), and trying to spin it to blunt US objections.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/sep39/f19sep39.htm
Hitler conciliatory to Allies
Tuesday, September 19, 1939
In Danzig... Hitler makes a triumphal entry into the formerly free city and makes a foreign policy speech that seems to offer conciliation with France and Britain, suggesting that the war could be concluded on the basis of the German territorial gains already achieved. He also swears that Danzig will be German forever and that Germany will fight to the bitter end, if necessary.
In Poland... The Soviet advance reaches the Hungarian frontier. In the north Vilna (Wilno) is taken. The Soviets link up with the Germans at Brest Litovsk, which is given up to the Soviets according to the provisions of the secret agreement of August 23, 1939. Meanwhile, about 30,000 Polish troops reach Warsaw after fighting their way out of Kutno. German bombers being a continuing assault on Warsaw, initially striking utilities and other essential public facilities. Also, the battle of Bzura ends with the surrender of 100,000 officers and men of the defeated Polish Pomorze and Poznan armies (consisting of 19 Polish divisions). In eastern Poland, German forces surround Lvov.
In France... The first British army corps lands in France.
Rickenbecker predicted the USSR would be the big winner of the war. If the USA had stayed out like he wanted us to, that probably would have happened.
As for participation in the war only causing bankruptcy, he was personally quite right. His prize asset, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, did not run a 500 from 1942-1945, and went bankrupt. In 1945, Tony Hulman bought the property for the equivalent of a string of beads. Today it is probably worth a couple billion dollars.
As Europe sank deeper into Hell, Americans headed off to their Rumba lessons at Arthur Murray’s [ad in one of the screenshots].
Hey, we're neutral. Might as well have fun.
Arthur Murray
Taught me dancin' in a hurry;
I had a week to spare,
He showed me the ground work,
The walkin' around work,
And told me take it from there!
Sorry, I can’t read minds. If you have a question or comment, I’ll try to engage.
EDITORIALSREUNION IN POLAND
"German troops advancing east and Russians marching west met yesterday at Brest-Litovsk. The name stirs memories. It was at Brest-Litovsk that Germans and Russians met on one earlier occasion, to sign the historic treaty which ended Russia's participation in the World War.
"In the terms of that treaty, the Germans, who have never ceased to complain of the "injustice" and the "cruelty" of the Treaty of Versailles, gave the world a stinging lesson in the kind of treaty they could write when they themselves were victors in a war.
"They stripped Russia of the districts of Kars, Batum and Ardahan, and handed those districts over to their ally, Turkey. They forced Russia to renounce sovereignty over Lithuania, Estonia, Livonia, Courtland and Russian Poland -- not in order to set up those provinces as self-governing nations, as was the case when the Allied Powers broke up the old Austro-Hungarian Empire for the sake of liberating its subject peoples -- but in order to permit German and her partner Austria to divide the spoils.
"They forced Russia to recognize the independence of the Ukraine and Georgia and to pay six billion marks in reparations. By the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk a dismembered Russia, cut off from the Black Sea and very nearly from the Baltic also, lost one-third of its people, half of its industries and nine-tenths of its coal mines."
This editorial makes the point I've tried to make several times -- that the allies' 1919 Treaty of Versailles was no rougher on Germany than the German Treaty of Brest-Litovsk imposed on Russia.
The reparation of "six billion marks" is hard to figure, in terms of how much it was really worth, then or now.
If the conversion is old Gold Marks, then 2,790 marks equals one kilogram of gold, in today's money, around $26,000. So, six billion marks is around $57 billion in today's money -- but in gold.
And consider that Russia's economy was in absolute shambles in 1918 -- six billion marks was a huge burden.
An actual 2 column story on Pg1?? say it ain’t so.
I take it the South African pilot was white? Not that it matters. But if he were black I think we would have heard his name a LOT in the last 70 years.
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