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Posted: 12/17/2016 6:23:48 PM EDT
 Churchill's Betrayal of Poland |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 6:25:38 PM EDT
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It was the US that screwed Eastern Europe, not the brits.
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Posted: 12/17/2016 6:35:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/17/2016 6:38:42 PM EDT
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It was the US that screwed Eastern Europe, not the brits. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 6:48:05 PM EDT
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Don't forget the Lusitania.
Lusitania and Churchill But the most interesting part of the book by far is the section in which Larson reveals the workings of the secret Room 40 in an old Admiralty building in central London, the center of a covert operation run by Churchill which was monitoring and decoding German naval radio messages. This clearly shows that Churchill and the very senior people in the Admiralty knew all about U-20 and roughly where it was and the extreme danger it posed to the approaching Lusitania. Yet nothing was done to protect the liner and its passengers, even though Room 40 knew that 23 British merchant ships had been torpedoed around the coast of Britain and Ireland in the preceding seven days, three of them by the U-20. At the same time as Lusitania was approaching Ireland several destroyers were being used to protect the pride of the British navy, the battleship Orion, which had just left port. Other destroyers which could have protected the Lusitania were tied up in British and Irish ports. Given all that Room 20 knew about submarine activity in the area at the time, the Lusitania should have been diverted to the safer North Channel route (around the top of Ireland). It also should have been given a naval escort as it approached from the Atlantic. Neither was done and this looks very suspicious, given earlier remarks made by Churchill implying that it would take a major disaster to get America into the war. The sinking of the Lusitania, with many Americans on board, provided such a disaster. If the sinking of the Lusitania was, as it appears, a result of deliberate and calculated inaction by Churchill, it surely must rank among the greatest sins of omission ever committed. |
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