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To: limtex who wrote (29577)5/9/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: w molloy  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
>> England was minding its own business in the summer of 1914 and again in the Summer of 1939.
England had no particular interest in Europe and didn't have much of an Army or an Airforce
applicable to a European war. England had very little interest in Europe as the German Government
calculated.

Limtex - This outrageous statement is flat out wrong.

1914 - The Balkan conflict how been fermenting for years, as the Ottoman empire broke up. The British, the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Germans and Tsarist Russia all had interests in the region. Britain ended up with the mediterranean island of Cyprus as a result in 1912 (I beleive.). The British also had the most powerful Navy in the world.

1939 - British Foreign Policy was devoted to German Appeasement. The
Royal Navy was still the most powerful in the world, and the airforce stopped the Luftwaffe. The army trained for a containing European War, along the lines of WWI. This strategy was undone by the German Blitzkreig and the evacuation of the British expeditionary force (some 300000 men) at Dunkirk France in 1940.

V weapons - If Hitler wasn't enamoured with V weapons, and put his resources into Tank and plane production it's very possible Europe would be speaking German now.

Limtex -I'm surprised and dissapointed you are so far off base. Britain was a declining superpower - ever heard of the British Empire?
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