(March 9, 2016 at 2:05 am)Minimalist Wrote:(March 9, 2016 at 12:13 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: We had been planning for WWII since the 1920s. It could have happened.
We had an astounding isolationist movement going on. We had to be blasted into WW2...
in case you forgot.
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In the 1920s we knew that we would have a war with Japan at some time in the future. That's why we had the B29 ready to go when WWII started. On the flip side the Brits thought that they would be fighting us instead of the Germans.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.ht...838C639EDE
October 27, 1927
ENVISIONS US FIGHTING BRITAIN AND JAPAN; Lieut. Commander Kenworthy Predicts England Will Head Union of Distrust of America.
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Possibility of war between the United States and Great Britain, with Japan as a British ally and Canada neutral, is seen in the not distant future by Lieut. Commander J.M. Kenworthy, M.P., in his book, "Peace or War," soon to be published in this country, says The Associated Press.
SAYS JAPAN IS ARMING AGAINST US AND EUROPE; French Writer, Home From Far East, Is Convinced That Big War Is Threatened.
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Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. ();
July 03, 1926,
