To: Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
3 posted on
02/20/2010 5:09:07 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
(Continued from Reply #3 on the
February 17 thread) 
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
(To be continued.)
4 posted on
02/20/2010 5:10:07 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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
(The tax code is an immoral affront to a supposedly free people.)
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