Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canada, Australia, Argentina

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Shane Mage quotes Brad DeLong:

> >Lots of people refused to aid or tried to harm the Loyalist cause
> >during the Spanish Civil War (including, IMO, the Soviet Union--much
> >more interested in smashing Trotskyism than in defeating Franco).
> >IIRC, only four governments--Switzerland, Sweden, Franco's Spain, and
> >Peron's Argentina--had failed to join the United Nations by the end
> >of the war against Hitler.
> >
> >
> >Brad DeLong
>
> You leave one not unimportant country out of your list of neutrals--
> Ireland (Eire).  Not to mention one "democratic" European country
> that was allied with the Nazis throughout virtually the entire
> war--Finland.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "Thunderbolt steers all things."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64

Brad, is the correct inference that you would have supported the Loyalist
cause?

And where do you put the USA on the spectrum of "refused to aid or tried
to harm"?  After all, winking at oil companies who sold oil to Franco in
spite of an embargo must go in that spectrum somewhere.

    And wasn't UK and USA "neutrality" designed to harm the Loyalist
cause?

Gene Coyle