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We salute you

In 1938 the English football side, including the great Stanley Matthews, gave the Nazi salute in Berlin as instructed by the Foreign Office. Now British Royal Marines apologize and smile to the Iranian hostage-taker-in-chief. In 1939 war broke out.

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Mick Stockinger:

"In 1933 a French premier ought to have said (and if I had been the French premier I would have said it):

"The new Reich Chancellor is the man who wrote Mein Kampf, which says this and that. This man cannot be tolerated in our vicinity. Either he disappears or we march!"

But they didn't do it.

They left us alone and let us slip through the risky zone, and we were able to sail around all dangerous reefs. And when we were done, and well armed, better than they, then they started the war!"

--Joseph Goebbels

Posted by Mick Stockinger | April 5, 2007 10:01 AM

Posted on April 5, 2007 10:01