Liberals Hoping for an Obama Messiah Oct 10, 2008
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Wake Up, America Oct 7, 2008
An air force was already in place in violation of the Versailles Treaty. France and England protested but did nothing. (Investors Business Daily)
Newsweek: The economics of a new cold war Aug 22, 2008
America is Britain, Western Europe NATO countries are the loose coalition of countries that Hitler faced in undermining the Versailles Treaty. Georgia is Poland and South Ossetia looks like Czechoslovakia did to Hitler in 1937. (MSNBC -- Business)
Russia Shamefully Invades Georgia Aug 15, 2008
Seven months later, Hitler staged the same kind of military invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia, justifying his takeover of its Sudetenland on the pretext of freeing more than 3 million ethnic Germans who lived under Czech rule because of Versailles Treaty partitioning following World War I.. The Czech army had prepared to fight. (Newsmax)
The 'Good War' and the Terrible Peace00004000 Jun 19, 2008
Hanson agrees the Versailles Treaty of 1919 was "flawed," but says Germany had it coming, for the harsh peace the Germans imposed on France in 1871 and Russia in 1918. Certainly, the amputation of Alsace-Lorraine by Bismarck's Germany was a blunder that engendered French hatred and a passion for revenge. (Human Events Online)
First World War RAF ace Henry Allingham celebrates 112th birthday Jun 8, 2008
"TIMES OF HIS LIFEJune 6 1896: Henry William Allingham is born in Clapton, East London, two days after the very first Ford vehicle, the Ford Quadricycle, is constructed.1898: His father dies from tuberculosis when Henry is 18 months old, in the year that Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium, which led to the X-ray machine and radiation treatments. Also that year, Brad's Drink is renamed Pepsi Cola.1915: Following the death of his mother at the age of 42, Allingham enlists with the Royal Naval... (Mirror.co.uk)
Was World War II a bad war? Jun 8, 2008
The thousands of Americans lying beneath the rows of white crosses at Normandy Beach, at Hamm, Luxembourg, and at St. Avold in the Lorraine probably did not debate the Versailles Treaty or worry too much whether a B-17 took out a neighborhood when it tried to hit a German rail yard. Instead, our soldiers were more worried that they had few options available to stop Nazi Germany and imperial Japan -- other than their own innate courage. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Sitting down at the nuclear table with Iran Jun 7, 2008
The question was whether Britain and France would act when Adolf Hitler violated Germany's Versailles Treaty commitments. Winston Churchill criticized the governments for capitulating when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, arguing that if they had responded, "There is no doubt that Hitler would have been compelled by his own General Staff to withdraw. . . . They had only to act to win." Instead, a confident Hitler went on to absorb Austria, and after Munich, Czechoslovakia. (Boston Globe)
How the West Lost the World Jun 3, 2008
But it was a direct, if not inevitable, consequence of a Versailles treaty that had consigned 3. 5 million Sudeten Germans to Czech rule against their will and in violation of the principle of self-determination. (Human Events Online)
Words of War May 28, 2008
The tragedy of World War I, it seems to me, is how the Versailles Treaty ended and the Allies were not willing to remain vigilant, because given their enormous losses in the war there was sort of a utopian pacifism that followed. Q: You've been reading books about the war in Iraq by various participants. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Solving the Aroostook War Apr 19, 2008
The line had been decided in the Versailles Treaty of 1783 (the treaty which ended the Revolutionary war), and had been defined by way of the Mitchell Map, a map of America made by one John Mitchell. The Lumberjack War. (Suite101.com)
Take a trip back to 1908, when Cubs were winners Mar 31, 2008
It was sort of reminiscent of the Versailles Treaty, which followed a Nov. 11,1919, armistice that stopped fighting in World War I.. Kerry Wood. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Miss Lodi brings $1.9M carrying Storm Cat foal Jan 10, 2008
The dispersal of the late Cynthia Phipps's bloodstock was led by $625,000 broodmare prospect Palais Versailles, an unraced daughter of Versailles Treaty who sold to WinStar Farm ... About two hours later, Versailles Treaty herself took center stage as Hip No. 482, looking sprightly at age 20 ... In addition, Versailles Treaty has only one ovary, her left one having been surgically removed some years ago, a fact that Hancock said had not prevented her from getting in foal easily. (ESPN -- Horse Racing)
Iranians 'Were a Heartbeat From Being Blown Up'... Jan 8, 2008
The Blotter: U.S.: Iranians 'Were a Heartbeat From Being Blown Up. TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. (The Drudge Report)
Land Rover: offers welcome Jan 7, 2008
The carmaker is of course a national treasure: French as Gauloises cigarettes and as old as the Versailles treaty. Yet the national response is a big shrug. (Guardian Unlimited -- Education)
Web takes Ron Paul for a ride Nov 11, 2007
Those ideas were on display Saturday as Mr. Paul said young people should be able to opt out of Social Security, called for an audit into how much gold really is in Fort Knox, and, in urging an end to the war, declared, The Versailles Treaty is one of our biggest problems were dealing with today, because it was under the Versailles Treaty that we created the West created this artificial country called Iraq. . (MSNBC -- Politics)
Letters to the Editor Nov 5, 2007
By the terms of the Versailles Treaty, the German army was forbidden to have airplanes and tanks. That prohibition did not stop the Germans from joint-venturing with the Soviet Union to do the development work at secret Russian sites. (Anchorage Daily News)
Why Do People Do Evil? Sep 5, 2007
Nazism arose from Germans' sense of victimhood -- as a result of the Versailles Treaty, of the "stab in the back" that led to Germany's loss in World War I and of a world Jewish conspiracy. Communism was predicated on workers regarding themselves as victims of the bourgeoisie. (Human Events Online)
Seemed like a good idea at the time Jul 14, 2007
Kershaw might have chosen other turning points as well - for example, the Nazi repudiation of the Versailles Treaty in 1935, which could have led to Anglo-French military action but didn't. And there were monumental judgment calls later on that Kershaw fails to examine, like Roosevelt's decision to invade North Africa in 1942, forgoing a second front in Europe until 1944. (Black Hills Pioneer, SD)
Review: Fateful Choices Jul 7, 2007
Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World.". " Ian Kershaw doesn't go quite that far in "Fateful Choices," but he does attempt to show how one of the most consequential events of the 20th century - World War II - took shape, and why it might have turned out differently. A professor at the University of Sheffield in England and the author of an acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Right or wrong' Jun 30, 2007
They'd have been better off if they had waged war against Hitler when he broke the Versailles Treaty in 1936. Now we're engaged in waging war in Iraq, where a victory is essential to maintain civilization as we know it. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Internment High Seas Fleet 1918 Apr 22, 2007
This fleet would remain surrounded by the Royal Navy for another eight months when impending fears of what the Versailles treaty would bring about its own by. Sources. (Suite101.com)
Lessons from the past Apr 22, 2007
After its defeat in World War I, Germany was humiliated by the Versailles Treaty, which reduced its army, territory and asked for recognition of guilt for the war, according the Jewish Virtual Library. The new Weimar Republic that was formed suffered economic instability and many people where out of work. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
Fool Duel Revisited: iRobot Apr 20, 2007
Rick won the first battle -- but Rich landed the Versailles Treaty in the end. Further saber-rattling Foolishness. (MSNBC -- Business)
Chaos Under Heaven Mar 8, 2007
Her previous book, Paris 1919, was a revisionist study of the talks that produced the Versailles Treaty, at the end of the First World War. That book was subtitled Six Months That Changed the World. (New Yorker)
'South-North relations will be more turbulent' Jan 12, 2007
In 1934, Hitler withdrew from international associations and in 1935 abolished the clauses in the Versailles Treaty restricting military expenditure. In March 1936, he rearmed the Rheinland and subsequently broke the Pact of Locarno, marking the beginning of World War II. Hitler claimed each time he acquired more territory that this was the last time and he had no further ambitions to acquire more. (Korea Herald, Korea)
