POLAND, GERMANY, BRITAIN BOSOM FRIENDS
In 1934 Poland signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany.
Hitler had many admirers in western Europe including the BBC’s Director General John Reith who became Minister For Information during the Second World War,and David Lloyd who had been British Prime Minister during the Black and Tan War. THE TIMES of London was an admirer also.
In Ireland the West British IRISH TIMES was an avid supporter of Hitler and, following Fianna Fail’s coming to power in a free election, the rejected anti-Republicans aped the thugs’ tactics of Mussolini and Hitler and adopted para-military Blue Shirts, Fascist Salutes and the attempted intimidation of Republicans and Socialists. A month or two before Hitler murdered his Brownshirt followers, John A Costello predicted that the Blueshirts would come to power in Ireland.
When in 1936 German citizens with Jewish blood were stripped of their rights, Eamon de Valera condemned the Nuremberg Decrees codifying that atrocity, Fine Gael’s Desmond Fitzgerald disassociated himself from the condemnation. When Mussolini launched his attack on Ethiopia Eamon de Valera, President of the Assembly of the League of Nations, demanded that the members honour the League’s Covenant and apply effective sanctions on the aggressors, Fine Gael demanded that Fianna Fail support Catholic Italy. And when the mutinous traitor Franco made war on Spain
Fine Gael organised an Irish unit to support the scoundrel. Anti-Semitism was strong in Poland and France, much stronger than in pre-Hitler Germany. The tiny Irish community of Jews supported the Irish Republic established by the electorate in 1919 and the Chief Rabbi was a close friend of de Valera, and had welcomed him to his house when the British were searching for him. The Constitution drafted by Dev and enacted by plebiscite recognises by name most religious communities, including Judaism and recognises the equal rights of all citizens whether believers or not.
In 1938 Germany and Poland each grabbed pieces of Czechoslovakia when Britain’s Neville Chamberlain kow-towed to Hitler at Munich and ratted on an agreement not to do so. The Soviet Union, which was poised and ready to defend Czech sovereignty, in an agreement previously made with France and Britain, was asked by the Czechs, on advice by the British, to refrain.
Since 1929 the Soviet Union’s Foreign Policy was conducted by the admirable and able Maxim Litvinov and was committed to international peace and disarmament.The Litvinov Protocol was an International Treaty registered at the League.
The ratting on that Treaty by Poland, Germany a Britain required a change of Soviet policy. Litvinov was not the man to negotiate with the Nazis. His family name was Finkelstein.
Molotov was his replacement and in 1940 made a deal with Ribbentrop, who,,like Ramsay MacDonald was the toast of London Society, wining and dining with Lord and Lady Londonderry in their London mansion and Co. Down estates.
What I have written here can be checked.
I’m neither a Russian nor a Communist nor an ex-Socialist. Neither Stalin nor Molotov were gentlemen. But they did not cause the Second World War.
But I think the pundits in the Western Media are for the most part paid liars, with the odd simple equally paid gobshite thrown in.
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