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



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?

Of course.

Brad DeLong




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