tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post3348453318005176000..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: World War IIFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6175269491348802472017-08-29T12:54:38.091+01:002017-08-29T12:54:38.091+01:00Probably with some criticism. But there are times ...Probably with some criticism. But there are times when one fights the more urgent fight. Pity that FDR thought he could 'manage' Stalin, but as long as Hitler was both the immediately lethal threat AND grinding away at the Commies, it probably wasn't necessary to insist on fighting both at once.<br /><br />And speaking from 27 years of naval service, it would have been very awkward Ed Ahlsen-Girardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504985467612049862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30939071938251376602017-08-28T23:58:46.848+01:002017-08-28T23:58:46.848+01:00I recall seeing a Newsreel, many years ago, in whi...I recall seeing a Newsreel, many years ago, in which W. Churchill, stated that he would ally with the Devil, if it would help him to defeat the Nazis. Well, it seems that he did.<br /><br />The war effort became filled with evil actions; both deliberate and the turning of a blind eye to the evil of others. The fire bombing of whole cities, the "Take no prisoners" orders given by many Patrick A O’Flynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951793635636477748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41736504602913495902017-08-28T17:21:38.533+01:002017-08-28T17:21:38.533+01:00Pure coincidence no doubt, but Waugh was a pretty ...Pure coincidence no doubt, but Waugh was a pretty miserable academic.Bert Louthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162906468419332513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89062586847309923242017-08-28T16:09:52.051+01:002017-08-28T16:09:52.051+01:00I hope it's not redundant to give more backgro...I hope it's not redundant to give more background for those who haven't read the book: Waugh (through his hero, Guy Crouchback) sees in the Sword of Stalingrad a symbol of the betrayal of the original 1939 anti-tyrannical cause against both Hitler and Stalin. That bejewelled, gold and silver-mounted sword (no expense spared there in an age of real austerity) was commissioned in 1943 at John Vaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335331585265267754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30917513753865546342017-08-28T14:54:40.757+01:002017-08-28T14:54:40.757+01:00The ghastly neocon in question was Donald Rumsfeld...The ghastly neocon in question was Donald Rumsfeld, who was contrasting the contemporary foreign policy stances taken by the countries who had recently escaped the yoke of communism (Poland, Hungary, Ukraine & company) with those of the historically dominant voices of continental Europe, France & Germany.<br /><br />Knowing that, would you still maintain that the governments of modern Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com