Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Mark Jones]

Brad deLong wrote
>> when the chips were down, the British and French
governments *declared* *war* on Nazi Germany in early September 1939.
They didn't have to do so. And they were the only governments to
declare war on Hitler, rather than wait out as much of WWII as
possible in the hope that Hitler would not attack them. <<

This is like when the British government, having done everything possible to
foster the spread of mad cow disease, by sponsoring the criminal corps. who
sold the minced-sheepbrain cowfood, refusing to acknowledge a problem even
when people are dying like flies etc, were suddenly obliged to be the first
govt in Europe to acknowledge that, well, yes, actually old chap, there is a
BIT of a prob. Thus Chamberlain, having done everything he possibly could to
encourage Hitler to attack Poland, was forced to admit sheepishly, like a
fourth-former caught with his finger in someone else's tuckbox, that he
never meant it and he's terribly sorry for the inconvenience caused. So
Chamberlain declared his phoney "war" (drole de guerre) on Germany and spent
the next year or so doing nothing against Hitler and everything feasible to
get Hitler to expedite his attack on Russia.

It just ain't like you say it was, Brad, and here is the definitive account
of why:

http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/Stalin_WW2.htm

Mark Jones
http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList

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