On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:35:20 -0800, Wylie wrote:
> forgive me if this has been done to death, but couldn't really find much
> on this.
>
> Hitler decides that invading Norway can wait. Britain pulls off their
> invasion/occupation of Narvik unopposed. Norwegians grumble, but don't
> raise arms.
>
> Some grumbling oversees in the USA as Britain occupied a neutral
> country. USA does not take action, but it gives a minor boost to the
> isolationist faction.
>
> Since there is no Norway debacle to prompt a no-confidence vote,
> Chamberlain is still in power during the Battle of France. He is unable
> to spin the Dunkirk evacuation as a miracle
>
> At this point, would Chamberlain make peace, find his nerve or would he
> be ousted in favor of Churchill now?
Chamberlain is a sick man with less than a year to live.
The big question is 'who replaces him'.
Churchill hasn't a hope unless the government falls.
Neither, let's be honest, has Lord Halifax.
Hore Belisha, the War Minister,uming he avoids Gort's anti-Semitic
machinations, is still unacceptable as Prime Minister, because he's
Jewish...
Who gets it?
Chamberlain was about as dynamic and distinguished as the Tories got pre
war and he is best described as mediocre.
Churchill once described him thus:
words> 'He would make a fine Lord Mayor of Birmingham, in a good year"...
> If he makes peace, could this remove the distractions of North Africa/
> Norway/Greece when Hitler decides to go wake the Russian bear in a one-
> front war? Would Britain & France step in when Germany was about to be
> overrun?
The British received the Frisch Peieris Memorandum a couple of months
before the German peace feelers were put out, they knew that a bomb was
possible and thought they could build one.
Chances are that they'd keep fighting.
The alternative would be more or less open revolt in Palestine and much
tougher demands for independence in India.
At a time of complex European entanglements the government would probably
fall, and Labour certainly wouldn't do a deal with the Nazis, they knew
full well what happened to Socialists and Trade Unionists in Nazi
controlled countries.
--
William Black
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