Churchill wrote a piece called If Lee Had Not Won At Gettysburg, well before the second war i think, but it was included in a cloth-bound book given to canadian troops, called Soldier's Reader, i have one somewhere ... very interesting, the What Ifs, they lead straight into infinity though
You were talking [asking?] about New Zealand upthread ... for me it was a free enterpriser's paradise, it just happened that in the early nineties their classic liberal guvmint du jour had privatised a lot of forestry land, and there was opportunity, at a time when sixty cents canuck would get you one kiwi, which didn't last long .... it's the ultimate green and pleasant land, as far as climate and fertility go, and is a nation of gardeners, an apolitical thing i respect ... very advanced people in some respects, try a google for history of 'karitane nurses' ... and you had to respect their balls for the anti-nuke thing, standing up to the french and all comers ... first to give women the vote ... which Mq really appreciates, lol ... he's right about Helengrad, they've swung back way too far to nanny-state, it won't last, hopefully, well it can't, they'll go broke ... in the early sixties my uncle in Gawdzone* paid just short of three times the price for an english auto that we paid for the identical machine here in BC, that's how high their tariff walls then
* - there was around the 1880s a poster recruiting british colonists for NZ, it showed a bucolic farm scene, across the top there was in big print, God's Own Country ... hence, Godzone or so now |
