To: Homer_J_Simpson
“Owing to political complications. . . “
IIRC part of the reason for delay was fear that mining would impair appeasement of Hitler. The other had to do with mining the waters of a nonbelligerent nation.
11 posted on
02/20/2010 5:20:40 AM PST by
Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie
IIRC part of the reason for delay was fear that mining would impair appeasement of Hitler. The other had to do with mining the waters of a nonbelligerent nation.According to Churchill (in Chapter XXXII as he says in the footnote) the political considerations involved concern over the reactions of Norway and Sweden, and acting in concert with France. My impression is that Chamberlain was through with appeasement after Hitler took Czechoslovakia in March '39 .
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02/20/2010 5:44:36 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
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