Edward VIII The Traitor King (part 9 of 11)

[disamjisa]

A dangerous, vain coward.

Any other traitor would have been shot; this is the danger of hereditary monarchy.

[truvianni]

Our congress did declare war on Japan as everybody knows yet what was odd is that the decision to go to war with Japan was far from unanimous in fact many voted against the war and with a few more votes they might have won

[TimpleTapper]

@truvianni - I believe that only one Congress person voted against 'Declaring war on Japan' - all Senators voted in favour of declaring war on Japan - that's pretty close to unanimous - a few votes would have changed nothing - history is what it is! We can learn from it but we can't change it.

[truvianni]

@TimpleTapper than you believe wrong or have read different information than I have. I read that the vote was close of course Americans do tend to lie about their own history so it does not surprise that in America the truth was changed like it was in many cases such as the war with Spain and its causes

[TheAltaRose]

@TimpleTapper It is very easy to check out votes on any subject that comes before the American Government - the vote in the Senate was 82 in favour - none opposed - in the House of Representatives 388 in favour - one opposed. It is difficult to lie about a public vote -- Americans were very angry about being attacked by Japan - the one person who was opposed to declaring war on Japan was either very courageous or very foolish. it all depends on how you look at it!

[TheAltaRose]

If you are interested the one Congress Person who voted against declaring war on Japan was Jannette Rankin - Republican of Montana on December 8,1941.

[Alimantado91]

Oh christ here come the nutters in their rubber lederhosen and clutching soggy autographed photos of John Tyndall in full SS paraphernalia.

[Ezrateach]

@JuanMacready It is a decent place to live. Rule, Britannia.

[1Littleagger]

well it sounds like today hitler did win.the nwo is here.

[tigranvartanovitch]

What was Axel Wennergren doing in Mexico? Mexico was one of the Allies.

[72Yonatan]

@tigranvartanovitch

Mexico was being weaned by the Nazis, and Wennergren was there on their behalf. Nazi Germany made a WW2 proposal to the Mexican government to return lands from the USA to Mexican control if they should support the Nazi cause during the war, thereby changing loyalties. The Mexican government was considered pro-fascist, sort of like Spain itself, although they were by then independent of Spain.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@72Yonatan The programme says Wennergren had fled Bermuda and had settled in Mexico, because he was on the run from the Allies. Mexico was in the war on the side of the allies.

[72Yonatan]

@tigranvartanovitch

Yes, formally, Mexico was an Ally, declaring war against the Axis in June 1942, after the USA. In WW2, Mexico sent one small squadron to fight, after a Mexican oil tanker was hit. You forget that there are old wounds here, and that one third of the American west was taken from Mexico, including California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado. German agents- Wennergren-were hoping to take advantage of such resentment; see Zimmerman Telegram Affair.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@72Yonatan Then you are agreeing with me. Wennergren was not in Mexico to seek shelter from the Allies. If he were, he would have returned to Sweden. I have had direct dealings with the company who made this film. They will not let the facts get in the way of sensationalism. So you can forget that the Duke of Windsor was a traitor. If he was working for anyone, he would have been working for the British, which he probably was.

[GusF]

Britain certainly had a lucky escape. I shudder to imagine how things would have turned out if he hadn't abdicated.

[TheSSGB]

maybe if he had remained King Britain would not been a shit hole it is now

[VictorLepanto]

This Wenner Gren was the George Soros of his time. That would make Obama the Duke of Windsor for George Soros.

[DrZenith]

Thank God Edward never remained King! What a bastard.....

[Rotebuehl1]

@DrZenith

Thank God the King didn't get along with such a treason! George VI even wanted to deprive Edward of the title of duke of Windsor, but the government admonished the King by argueing, that would make the entire issue even more important than it was supposed to be!