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Originally posted by sapper740
Why is it people need to affix culpability to those in power at the time of war through outlandish conspiracy theories?
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Quite so.
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What about P.M. Chamberlain waving his "peace treaty" and declaring "Peace in our time!" immediately prior to the German attack on Poland?
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Neville Chamberlain comes in for a lot of flak about that but in fact was doing just what you can see happening in today's recent history, shuttle diplomacy as we now call it; go and talk to the agressive parties and try to avoid conflict by dialogue.
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What about the lack of air cover while Canadians were being slaughtered in Dieppe,
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We've been here before, the Dieppe raid was simply a one man, go it alone and get covered in glory, exercise. Lord Louis Mountbatten (formerly Battenburg) used a tenuous link to Churchill in order to enforce great secrecy with the excuse that he had been directly commanded by WC. Therefore Mountbatten's operation was kept from the Joint Chiefs and not only precluded any cross-service co-operation (air cover), but also then lacked any intelligence about the enemy disposition, or the beach topography.
Mountbatten himself was bomb-proof being of close royal connection although strong rumours abound that one senior officer did lay him out in the mess with a substantial punch in the gob when the truth came out after the fiasco.
Anyone else would have been court marshalled and probably jailed for such a devious skirting of official channels but LLM got away with it; not helped by a TV interview in the 60's when LLM stated; "I have never made a mistake in my life."
R.