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To: CougarGA7; PAR35; BroJoeK
From "Twenty News Questions":

1. In accounts of British troop landings in Norway the word Gallipoli has been recalled repeatedly. Explain.

Ouch.

11 posted on 04/21/2010 5:19:47 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; PAR35; BroJoeK

Lol. Ouch is right. I agree that it is a definite possibility that Lord Haw Haw hit on something there. As we progress in this war I have a few more examples that I don’t think the press hit on (we’ll see) FDR, Marshall, King, and Ike will all voice concerns of Churchill trying to avenge Gallipoli with his obsession with hitting the “soft underbelly of Europe” beginning with taking control of Africa and then moving into Italy. While I agree with this assessment to a degree at least when it directly pertains to Churchill, I think there is more to the resistance to the cross channel invasion than just that that I wont get into now.


12 posted on 04/21/2010 8:49:39 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (In order to dream of the future, we need to remember the past. - Bartov)
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