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George VI in Hindsight
The King’s Speech vs. History: an exchange. Plus much more.
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This is a wonderful idea. If you want to have some fun
with it, consider what would happen if you demilitarized a carrier
and gave it to the UN to manage. It would be an object lesson in
international cooperation and efficiency. For those of you who are
irony impaired, it would be a complete disaster.
— Roger
Great article! Well thought out. I’ve got a good source of
money. We can take it out of the Peace Corps fund and eliminate the
program.
— Curt W.
THE ART OF COMPROMISE
Re: Peter Hannaford’s
It’s Daylight Nuisance Time:
Make daylight savings time year-round or abolish it altogether?
I like the idea of splitting the difference, so as not to
hurt anyone’s feelings. Just set the clocks ahead half an hour one
spring and make it permanent. We’ll call that “compromise
time.”
— Karl Lembke
NEGATIVE VIBES:
Re: R.
Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s
Barbour Out On the Hustings:
Put the crack pipe down — President Obama is a two
termer. Have a great day!!
— Noel Bourne
Rustlings on the hustings? Hmmm… I don’t think
so
— Mimi Evans
Winship
YES, BUT
Re: Quin Hillyer’s
Budget Battles Demand Perspective:
OK, Quin. If incrementalism will get us there, fine, but
we don’t have much time left to defund Obamacare before it’s no
longer a cub, but a bear. Just sayin’!
— Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas
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Hal G. P. Colebatch| 3.21.11 @ 9:47AM
Professor Mandel says: "As late as May 1940, when the possibility of coming to terms with Hitler was under discussion in Whitehall, George offered to intercede with the Labor Opposition Leader, Clement Attlee, to urge him to join the government in a bid to preserve Chamberlain in office. When Chamberlain resigned three days later, George "of course, suggested Halifax," the pro-appeasement Foreign Secretary, to succeed him. Had Halifax not refused, George would have handed him, not Churchill, the seals of office." The first of these statements is a non sequitur. Chamberlain by that time was as determined as Churchill to fight Hitler to the finish. We have Churchill's own word for this, and there is no reason to think he is lying. Further, the King had no freedom to choose either Halifax or Churchill. As a constitutional Monarch he was bound to act on Chamberlain's advice, and doing otherwise would never have occurred to him. Furthermore, had Halifax become Prime Minister it would probably have made no difference to the conduct of the war. Halifax was a man of considerable courage, who had fought in the first wqorld war despite having a weak heart, a withered arm and only one hand - not a bad record. None of this suggests the King was pro-appeasement.
Occam's Tool| 3.21.11 @ 2:32PM
Halifax didn't have his heart in fighting---given the near run aspect of the early British years in WWII, it did make a difference having Winnie.
IMKessel| 3.21.11 @ 12:53PM
Chaplain Tomlinson,
Good to have you back. Looking forward to seeing Ms. Gunn and a few others in a regularly appearing "Reader Mail."
Dee See| 3.21.11 @ 10:30PM
---AS the RED China 'Free Traitors' are just that,
and the scientific EUGENICS dicatatorship is
being put into place here at home ----still more
WWII roadside distractions.
MEANWHILE, the profoundly significant,
unbelievably relevant 60th Anniversary of the
KOREAN WAR was utterly 'overlooked'
---even as it comes to light Hollywood's been
'trimming' films to --'PLEASE'---Beijing for
decades now.
---SO much for franchise slum 'values'.
REALLY
William B. Bizzell II| 3.29.11 @ 12:40AM
Fearing the Mr. Fluette is dead right, I hope that when everyone, all at the same time, agrees, the US can avoid a comforting witch-hunt, or a call upon some Fuehrer, add sadly admit: WE DID THIS, ALL OF US, TO EACH OTHER, and go on from there.
Christian Louboutin | 6.23.11 @ 3:59AM
Churchill's political eclipse after his championing of Edward VIII was very brief, as events proved him right over Hitler; but so also was George VI's reputation as an appeaser. Churchill later admitted, "Thank God I was wrong" about Edward, while saying of George, "We couldn't have had a better King."
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 11:43PM
is good