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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (242291)	9/19/2007 2:48:24 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

ROTFL:Nadine did your read anything i posted about defence spending and arms production in the late 30s you and michael seem to believe that war can be waged at the drop of a hat,with little preparation and at no real expence. thats fine.. if its not you actually going to the front and you are not personally suffering from a devalued dollar. bottom line ...you and michael are mickey mouse generals...or rather daffy duck. review the 30s and see what the preoccupations of the general public were.....hitler was not at the top of the list until 1938. review americas position of strìct neutrality ....no sales of war material to any one! Neutrality Act, law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Aug., 1935. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents at the discretion of the President and by forbidding U.S. citizens from traveling on belligerent vessels except at their own risk. The demand for this legislation arose from the conviction of many Americans that U.S. entry into World War I had been a mistake. This conviction was strengthened by the well-publicized investigations by a Senate committee headed by Gerald P. Nye of American war loans to the Allies. The Neutrality Act was amended (Feb., 1936) to prohibit the granting of loans to belligerents, and later (Jan. and May, 1937) neutrality was extended to cover civil wars, a step inspired by the Spanish civil war. In Nov., 1939, the act was revised in favor of supplying warring nations on the “cash-and-carry” principle; but U.S. vessels were excluded from combat zones, and U.S. citizens were forbidden from sailing on belligerent vessels. These provisions were lifted by amendment in Nov., 1941, after the lend-lease policy had been established. The act was thus practically out of operation even before American neutrality ended with Pearl Harbor.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (242291)	9/19/2007 3:55:05 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Military Situation 1938 Hitler was in a strong barganing position. His rearmament program had greatly strengthened the German military. The Luftwaffe in particular had demonstrated its prowess in Spain. Britain and France were in no position to even reach the Czechs with military aid. If the war had begun in 1938, the Allies would have been hopelessly outclassed in the air. According to the French Minister for Air, the French would have had 600 planes to face the Luftwaffe's 6,500 modern planes. [Freidel, p. 303.] The RAF would have faced Luftwaffe wih a force that would have included biplanes. No one at the time, however, appreciated the fatal weaknesses of the French Army, even the Wehrmacht which feared a possible war. Another factor is that if the war had begun in 1938 and the invaion of the Soviet Union in 1940 rather than 1941, there would have been no T-34 tank to stiffen the Soviet defense. ....... histclo.com