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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12431)	2/17/2006 6:49:18 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 540839

But the British killed 1,600 French sailors when they sank the French fleet out of fear it would be turned over to the Germans. Fear? Nonsense. I contend that this is SOP for the British fleet in any war. If in doubt, sink the French ships. So force of habit overtook them this time - hey, it's normally been right... <G> just in case. <edit> but Vichy was in any case a German puppet state, not independent of Germany, any more than (say) Egypt was independent of the UK in 1920. It had a selected and only nominally independent government which did approximately what the overlord military power wanted, with minimal independence of word or deed.

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