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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>rbleier's Announcements</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/members/rbleier/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Churchill's Chamberlain: The Unnecessary War (WWII)</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/members/rbleier/announcements/default.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:41:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>rbleier</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Churchill&amp;rsquo;s Chamberlain: The Unnecessary War&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;rdquo; an article by Ronald Bleier,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;is projected as the first in a series intended to unveil some of &amp;nbsp;the hidden history of the origins of WWII.&amp;nbsp; The intention is to present evidence detailing Chamberlain&amp;rsquo;s role as the indespensable&amp;nbsp; enabler of Hitler&amp;rsquo;s aggressions.&lt;br /&gt;l&lt;br /&gt;The introductory six page article, &amp;quot; Churchill&amp;#39;s Chamberlain: The Unnecessary War&amp;quot; can be found at:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://desip.igc.org/Hitler-Chamberlain/Chamberlainswar.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first two paragraphs follow:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the &amp;ldquo;Preface&amp;rdquo; to The Gathering Storm, volume I of his World War II memoirs, Winston Churchill writes that when President Roosevelt asked for suggestions about what the war should be called, he replied that it should be called &amp;ldquo;the Unnecessary War. There never was a war more easy to stop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Churchill doesn&amp;#39;t explain in his brief &amp;quot;Preface&amp;quot; how war could have been prevented, but two thirds of his memoir is taken up with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain&amp;#39;s conduct in office in the crucial years 1937-1940. During that time Churchill was the most high profile critic of the prime minister&amp;#39;s appeasement policies, marked by Britain&amp;#39;s extraordinary and devastating security concessions to Hitler. Churchill was particularly outraged by what he saw as the prime minister&amp;#39;s purposeful obstruction of British rearmament in the face of the manifest threat from Germany. Churchill&amp;#39;s book may be read as a record of his frustration and its sum and substance amounts to an indictment of Chamberlain.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>