Well, it's not like the Germans or Vichy French would let him use a radio station...
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GhostofCain
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He could have always stayed and fought to use one, couldn’t he? Yet he left a sinking ship like a rat instead of staying to fight against the Nazis... As far as I am concerned, what a hypocrite!
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Of course, but I have always found his attitude rather hypocritical. Let others resist while I enjoy the hospitality of les rosbifs...
The Flash
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
Can't count as hypocritical when you have no other option.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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"UK" (or Great Britain) please. Plenty of bombs fell outside England.
It was either that or not organise resistance at all. He decided his skills as a commander and coordinator would come to their best effect if he used the infrastructure provided in Britain. I don't think it's any more hypocritical than what most generals throughout history did, place themselves on an elevated position to oversee the whole battlefield. It's only that this time, the battlefield was an entire continent.
There's also the matter that the French government had capitulated in a manner that it would be very easy to consider as legal. If he stayed, De Gaulle could either go underground and try to raise a force without the capacity of mass media, or he could join Petain's government.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
True, but most people outside the UK would not be able to tell apart a Scotsman/woman from an Englishman/woman.
Not even by the bowler hat or kilt?
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
That would have been heavy petain with the enemy!
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
That's a picture of a German-Greek wearing a kilt.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Not sure people in Clydebank wear kilts.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
You are saying that as if the Picts’ DNA does not include bits from everywhere in the world!
Onhell
Infinite Dreamer
I said and meant England. Just a guess here, but I assume the government of the UK is in England, no? Where else would a foreign dignatary go, regardless of reason.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Onhell
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Because that's where he was specifically. Had he hid in Scotland, I'd have said Scotland
Onhell
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For one of my private classes we're working on reading comprehension and vocabulary. I asked her what her interests were and she said, "WWII." I've So I've been taking articles from here and finding some new ones.
THIS one: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/3...IIs0HmWL6MSdkH2vYGYssC8c9fqpJZRCFoo7NY5_tSs5s
was an eye opener for me. I know for most of the people that post in this particular thread it probably isn't, but for a casual observer like myself it was mindblowing. As the article states, I was familiar with the U.S-centric narrative of "the bomb," in history books, articles, movies and even documentaries. The Pacific Theater is made out to be nothing more than naval battles in the middle of nowhere. I had no idea that Japan had been bomb for an entire summer by the allied forces. Great to get a better context of the events leading up to "the bomb," and Japan's ultimate surrender.
THIS one: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/3...IIs0HmWL6MSdkH2vYGYssC8c9fqpJZRCFoo7NY5_tSs5s
was an eye opener for me. I know for most of the people that post in this particular thread it probably isn't, but for a casual observer like myself it was mindblowing. As the article states, I was familiar with the U.S-centric narrative of "the bomb," in history books, articles, movies and even documentaries. The Pacific Theater is made out to be nothing more than naval battles in the middle of nowhere. I had no idea that Japan had been bomb for an entire summer by the allied forces. Great to get a better context of the events leading up to "the bomb," and Japan's ultimate surrender.