John Tyndall after being assaulted by a Red Mob. David Copeland is in the background. The photographer conveniently captured them both in the same frame - just months before the bomb attacks

The Eleventh Hour – Chapter 18 Britain and the world

• France was only prevented from bringing greater force to bear against us across the Atlantic (during the American war of Independence) by her heavy military commitments in Europe, such as the War of Spanish Succession (1704 – 1714) and the Severn years war (1756 – 1763)

• In 1834 the Zollverein or customs Union came into existence – only Austria and the German Northwest Coast land remained aloof

• That Germany might covet British possessions in Africa was not inconceivable but it certainly was not probable; with potential enemies enough, it was hardly likely that she should wish to add to these what was then the greatest Empire in the world

• The Washington Conference 1922

• Sir Oswold Mosley was the only prominent British political figure who vocally opposed declaring war on Germany

“Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in this sacred war (against Hitler’s Germany) should do so now and here”

Samuel Untermeyer (elected President of the World Jewish Economic Federation) Text printed in New York Times August 7th 1933

• Behind the facade of Western – Soviet ‘enmity’ there was all along, Western – Soviet collaboration

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