Comments on: 64th Anniversary of the Day Many Gave All http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/06/64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mg http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/06/64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all/#comment-83129 mg Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:14:30 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=5515#comment-83129 "The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage."--Thucydides

“The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage.”–Thucydides

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]]> By: Scott http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/06/64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all/#comment-83093 Scott Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:51:16 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=5515#comment-83093 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Z3rjR3mo4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Z3rjR3mo4

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]]> By: Scott http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/06/64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all/#comment-83010 Scott Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:15:58 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=5515#comment-83010 There was no moment in these sixteen years when the three former allies, or even Britain and France with their associates in Europe, could not in the name of the League of Nations and under its moral and international shield have controlled by mere effort of the will of armed strength of Germany. -Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War It is difficult to find a parallel to the unwisdom of the British and the weakness of the French Governments, who none the less reflected the opinion of their Parliaments in this disastrous period. Nor can the United States escape the censure of history. Absorbed in their own affairs and all the abounding interests, activities, and accidents of a free community, they simply gaped at the vast changes which were taking place in Europe and imagined they were none of their concern. -Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War By the autumn of 1933 it was plain that neither by precept nor still less by example would the British effort for disarmament succeed. The pacifism of the Labour and Liberal Parties was not effected even by the grave event of the German withdrawl from the League of Nations. Both continued in the name of peace to urge British disarmament, and anyone who differed was called “warmonger” and “scaremonger.” It appeared that their feeling was endorsed by the people, who of course did not understand what was unfolding. -Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War Until the middle of 1934 control of the events was still largely in the hands of His Majesty’s Government without the risk of war. They could at any time, in concert with France and through the League of Nations, have brought an overwhelming power to bear upon the Hitler Movement, about which Germany was profoundly divided. -Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War Don’t believe that anyone in the world will hinder me in my decisions [to invade Austria and Czechoslovakia]! Italy? I am quite clear that they are with Mussolini: with Italy I am on the closest of terms. England? England will not lift a finger for Austria…And France? Well, two years ago when we marched into the Rhineland with a handful of battalions [breaking the 1991 Treaty of Versailles]-at that moment I risked a great deal. If France had marched then we should have been forced to withdraw….but for France it is too late! -Adolph Hitler, 1938 Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of NAZI rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the Old. -Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

There was no moment in these sixteen years when the three former allies, or even Britain and France with their associates in Europe, could not in the name of the League of Nations and under its moral and international shield have controlled by mere effort of the will of armed strength of Germany.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

It is difficult to find a parallel to the unwisdom of the British and the weakness of the French Governments, who none the less reflected the opinion of their Parliaments in this disastrous period. Nor can the United States escape the censure of history. Absorbed in their own affairs and all the abounding interests, activities, and accidents of a free community, they simply gaped at the vast changes which were taking place in Europe and imagined they were none of their concern.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

By the autumn of 1933 it was plain that neither by precept nor still less by example would the British effort for disarmament succeed. The pacifism of the Labour and Liberal Parties was not effected even by the grave event of the German withdrawl from the League of Nations. Both continued in the name of peace to urge British disarmament, and anyone who differed was called “warmonger” and “scaremonger.” It appeared that their feeling was endorsed by the people, who of course did not understand what was unfolding.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

Until the middle of 1934 control of the events was still largely in the hands of His Majesty’s Government without the risk of war. They could at any time, in concert with France and through the League of Nations, have brought an overwhelming power to bear upon the Hitler Movement, about which Germany was profoundly divided.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

Don’t believe that anyone in the world will hinder me in my decisions [to invade Austria and Czechoslovakia]! Italy? I am quite clear that they are with Mussolini: with Italy I am on the closest of terms. England? England will not lift a finger for Austria…And France? Well, two years ago when we marched into the Rhineland with a handful of battalions [breaking the 1991 Treaty of Versailles]-at that moment I risked a great deal. If France had marched then we should have been forced to withdraw….but for France it is too late!
-Adolph Hitler, 1938

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of NAZI rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the Old.
-Winston Churchill, Memoirs of the Second World War

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]]> By: BarbaraS http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/06/64th-anniversary-of-the-day-many-gave-all/#comment-82942 BarbaraS Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:54:30 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=5515#comment-82942 Isn't it amazing that Pat Buchanan looks so sane for someone with a screw loose? How can anyone excuse and gloss over the cruelties of the Nazis and the Japanese during WW2? I have read many books over my lifetime and seen many newsreels of the results of their cruelty. I have read that there were isollationists during that time but I never met any of them but then I am from the South and we believe in fighting for our country. That type of thinking that these people were justified is the same mindset we are dealing with today. The appeasers and pacifists who won't fight for thier country and way of life and try to stop others willing to do so. They want to hunker down in a fetal position and close their eyes and hope for the best. I have no patience with them. This is not the type of people who made this country great. They are the ones who want to bring it down and destroy it.

Isn’t it amazing that Pat Buchanan looks so sane for someone with a screw loose? How can anyone excuse and gloss over the cruelties of the Nazis and the Japanese during WW2? I have read many books over my lifetime and seen many newsreels of the results of their cruelty. I have read that there were isollationists during that time but I never met any of them but then I am from the South and we believe in fighting for our country. That type of thinking that these people were justified is the same mindset we are dealing with today. The appeasers and pacifists who won’t fight for thier country and way of life and try to stop others willing to do so. They want to hunker down in a fetal position and close their eyes and hope for the best. I have no patience with them. This is not the type of people who made this country great. They are the ones who want to bring it down and destroy it.

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