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Late 1930's revisited

(January 20th 2026)

A new smash production hits all the newspapers round world. The Adolf and Neville show.

Synopsis

"Adolf" played by Donald Trump wants to take over Greenland and "Neville" played by Sir Keir Starmer has no intention of saying NO to him.

Forgive me if I am wrong but is this not a similar scenario of appeasement that was played out by Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in Munich on September 30th 1938.

However this situation was succinctly described in King George VI's first wartime speech on September 3rd 1939. The day the United Kingdom declared war on Germany

....... We have been forced into a conflict. For we are called, with our allies, to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilised order in the world.

It is the principle which permits a state, in the selfish pursuit of power, to disregard its treaties and its solemn pledges; which sanctions the use of force, or threat of force, against the sovereignty and independence of other states.

Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right; and if this principle were established throughout the world, the freedom of our own country and of the whole British Commonwealth of Nations would be in danger.

But far more than this – the peoples of the world would be kept in the bondage of fear, and all hopes of settled peace and of the security of justice and liberty among nations would be ended ......

Comment:

Isn't it about time politicians, in their vanity, stopped trying to make history and started learning from it.