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To: Taro who wrote (234540)	5/25/2005 4:09:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1572633

Re: why don't you take a closer look into Churchills "not so distinguished" days prior to WW II windfall opportunity presented to him by an extremely naive Neville Chamberlain? Because it's irrelevant to the George Galloway affair.... As for Neville Chamberlain being "naive", I'm not so sure: you should read "The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion" by Clement Leibovitz... Ever since the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the ensuing Russian pullout from WWI, Communism and the Soviet Union were deemed the main, if not the only, threat to the "Civilized West". Germany was viewed by the Brits and their US sidekicks as the last bulwark against the Communist creep... As early as 1933, there were German opponents to Nazism who sought help from Britain, France,... to no avail. Eventually, there were the first to be rounded up and sent to Dachau, Nazism's first reeducation camp. Chamberlain's gambit was that a fully militarized Germany would turn against the Soviet Union first and leave Western Europe alone. However, the memories of the WWI bloodshed (death toll= 9,450,000 dead) was still vivid among German and Russian elites as well as among Europe's elites at large. Thus the Germans and the Russians couldn't be drawn into yet another bloodshed while the other powers (France, Britain, Italy,...) watched from the sidelines. The Bolsheviks pulled Russia out of WWI because, they said, it was an imperialist war in which Russia had no interest. Such was still Stalin's opinion in the 1930s --hence the Molotov-Ribbentrop truce. And that's how the bourgeoisies of Western Europe got screwed in the process: Hitler secured its Eastern flank and safely invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and Northern France.... Gus