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2011-05-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Obama campaign gets long sought endorsements

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-01 12:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The infamous courtship of a patrician and a revolutionist Roosevelt and Stalin
Robert Nisbet

Then, in August 1944, the Soviets cruelly
widened their attack. Germans were still in
206 Summer/Fall1986
occupation of Warsaw but preparing to
retreat from the city. Moscow Radio for
days secretly called upon the Polish Home
Guard in Warsaw to revolt on a certain
day, promising that the already-advancing
Soviet army would move in immediately to
engage the Germans. Instead, after the
Polish uprising in Warsaw began, the incoming
Soviet troops suddenly stopped at
a river a few miles from Warsaw and
watched the spectacle over several days of
Nazi massacre of the rebelling Home
Guard.
This ugly display of Soviet barbarism
took place, it must be realized, three
months after the Normandy landing, after
Paris had been freed, and after there was
only the slightest threat to Russia from the
German armies. The world was shocked,
and when the British and Americans asked
Stalin for permission to use Soviet air fields
if any of their own planes were crippled
and forced to land in their mission of dropping
supplies for the Warsaw Poles, the
answer was a sharp no. The reactions by
Churchill and Roosevelt were individually
characteristic. Churchill, on August 25,
sent Roosevelt a draft telegram to Stalin
for Roosevelts concurrence, one begging
for a relenting of the Soviet decision in
order that the British and Americans, on
their own responsibility alone, might help.
Roosevelt, on the very next day, replied
stiffly: In consideration of Stalins present
attitude in regard to relief of the Polish underground..
. I do not consider it advantageous
to the long-range, general war
prospect for me to join with you in the proposed
message.35
It was about this time that Churchill
wrote Roosevelt to say that Chaim Web
mann (head of the World Zionist Organization)
had asked that the Jews be allowed
to organize a brigade of their own,
with their own commanders, uniform, flag,
et cetera, to join in the war against the Germans.
Churchill was all for it, and he was
obviously eager to have Roosevelt join
him. But the Presidents reply was a model
of brevity and coldness: I perceive no objection
toyour organizing a Jewish brigade
as suggested.% End of message.

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-01 21:18|| 2011-05-01 21:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Might have been one reason Patton wanted to march on to Moscow.

Just imagine he had

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-01 21:59|| 2011-05-01 21:59|| Front Page Top

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