Ukraine Dispatch 45: The Free World Paused...
Ukraine Dispatch 45
The Free World Paused
17 March 2024
On 1 September 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. Great Britain and France each delivered an ultimatum to Berlin that if Germany did not immediately withdraw their troops from Poland, then a state of war would exist between them. It was ignored.
On 3 September 1939 a sombre, almost broken voiced, Neville Chamberlain and who would die of cancer in November 1940, announced to the British People and to the British Commonwealth and Empire, and to the World,
that no such undertaking has been received and that, consequently, this Country is at war with Germany.
Europe lay strewn at Hitler’s feet. The man went on holiday in Paris.
The Free World paused… It’s all up. and an Island resisted.
The veteran Marshal Petain, soon to be the leader of the collaborationist Vichy France, was convinced that Britain would fall as had done France. History reports that Marshal Petain felt it wise to put the British prime minister Winston Churchill straight with a little fatherly advice.
Within three weeks Britain would have its neck wrung like a chicken. [i]
I can imagine that that would not have gone down too well.
Today, in 2024, and let this be underscored, for this is what happened as dawn broke on Thursday 24 February, 2022…
The Free World Paused, and Ukraine resisted
In the event that the American People allow to return to office, the most discredited American president in their short 248 year history as an independent nation, 391 million Americans will be responsible for what will then be unleashed upon the world.
May GOD forgive you, America!
17 March 2024
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LIVERPOOL
© 2024 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Digital Art © 2024 KTW © 2024 IBM unless otherwise credited
Notes
[i] UK Foreign Office notes online dated 29 March 2012
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
