Doug wrote:
>
>> (...) That is to say,
>> by that rule, England should have done nothing while
>> Hitler took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
>
> Note here that the UN _did_ vote to act against Iraq
> when they invaded Kuwait, a situation analogous to
> Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
>
No! A situation analogous to Germany's invasion
of Czechoslovakia would be *if* the USA, France,
and Iran agreed to split Iraq in three parts,
Iran taking the South, Jordania the Middle, and
Turkey the North.
The three takings mentioned above were totally
different. Austria was a "fusion", as the Austrian
g*vernment of that time was totally nazi. Czechoslovakia
was a partition, and each neighbour took a slice.
IIRC [from my history books, I'm not that old. Not
yet] the czechs didn't resist [they could].
Poland was an invasion, by both Germany and USSR.
And before all that was the militarization of the
Sudetos (sp?), the border of Germany and France.
Alberto Monteiro
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