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Bloody Sunday is considered "Nazi Propaganda " by NPCs with toilet paper history PhDs. Everything they don't want poisoning their dogmas and myths is applied this label. The Polish government is still demanding trillions in reparations from Germany as if they were poor innocent victims. Wikipravda has been a comedy site for at least a decade. When i read the WW2 entries I have to give myself breaks every five minutes so I don't die of laughter. Thanks for the typo alert. Edit: To answer your question on Britain wanting war...

Initially it may have been arroganace and hubris around the power of the British empire at the time, and their ability to enforce Versailles. Probably the same applies to their views of French power, with their commical immaginot line. The "truther" side of me believes there were conspirators working behind the scenes as they do (not just bankers in this case, though them as well) and the many actors in the production - Chamberlain, Halifax, Henderson, and soon after Churchill were acting on their behalf. Churchill's motives can be linked to a group called The Focus, who bought his debts (controlled him?) and supported his lavish lifestyle, drunkeness and penchant for gambling, and used him to lure the American empire into swallowing the British empire (debt guarantees-gold transfers) and then into the war. This can't be applied so easily to Halifax and Chamberlain, whom while luring Poland into the 1939 trap had a change of heart after getting their asses handed to them in 1940, and were seriously entertaining Hitler's very generous peace offerings in the wake of the Dunkirk flotilla. Churchill wouldn't permit it and quashed it by ramping up the indiscriminate bombing of Berlin. To echo Daryl Cooper's sentiment, he was by all measures the chief villain of the conflict that guaranteed a wider war...not Hitler.

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I meant 1926, not 1936...

Anyway thanks for reply; this is a plausible explanation except that, as you say, it doesn't fully account for the behaviour of Chamberlain etc. Why would they have been so concerned about Churchill's personal straits? Why not just let him go under? Why did Chamberlain change his mind?

A separate article maybe...

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Chamberlain (and Halifax) may have taken a lot of guff from the war hawks after Czechosloavkia, and wanted to put his foot down on Poland. I don't know that they were concerned at all with Churchill's straights or aware of who subsidized him, but they saw reason for a peaceful resolution given Hitler's generous terms, and the German carpet bombing of leaflets for those terms across Britain appealed to a majority of Brits, tired of war. Churchill wouldn't have it. Chamberlain was already ill by then and died in Nov 40'

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