Congratulations to Mr. Prewitt. It should be noted, however, that France’s highest order of merit is called the Legion of Honour (Légion d’honneur), not the Legion of Armour, and also that France doesn’t actually have knighthoods in the same sense as Britain does. “Chevalier” (knight) is indeed one of the Legion of Honour’s five levels, and the name is a holdover from the days when France still had an aristocracy, but the French nobility system went out the window with the French Revolution. I once saw a series of amusing cartoons depicting what life in France would be like today if the Bourbon monarchy hadn’t fallen, and one of them showed an irate air traveler standing at the ticket counter of “Royal Air France” and telling the ticket agent “But I’m a baron and I have a confirmed reservation!” The agent replies, “I’m sorry, sir, but the Duke of So-and-so has precedence over you, so we gave him your seat.” In fairness, the same sort of thing actually happens in real-life republican France. A few years ago, there was scandal involving one of the major D-Day anniversaries (I think it was the 50th one), when the French government contacted various hotels in Normany and appropriated some of their existing reservations so that various French officials could have rooms for the event. Some of those rooms, however, had been reserved by foreign veterans of the D-Day invasion. When the story broke on the front page of French newspapers (under such headlines as “Our Liberators Insulted!”), public opinion was outraged and the French government beat a hasty retreat. The prevailing editorial opinion over this affair was: Do this to our own citizens if you want, but don’t do this to the heroes who ended the occupation of France.
Hight of WWII natioan leaders
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@CWO:
An interesting figure to see would be a width measurement on Hermann Goering.
IL knows !!! :-D :-D :-D :-D
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yea Herman… the star pupil of the reason why Germany was “starving” due to Churchill ordering a basic economic blockade of Germany
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@Imperious:
yea Herman… the star pupil of the reason why Germany was “starving” due to Churchill ordering a basic economic blockade of Germany
Though in fairness Churchill wasn’t exactly anorexic – it would have been interesting to see him in the same room as Goering, and not just from a political standpoint – and British wartime rationing didn’t seem to be something about which he was overly scrupulous. I read somewhere that he was fond of having partridge or pheasant for breakfast, even during the war, and that these meals exceeded the weekly wartime protein allowance of British schoolchildren. And as far as booze goes: during his train trip from London to Thurso, prior to embarking on Prince of Wales to go see Roosevelt in August 1941, he cheerfully asked his scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, to compute how many cars of the train it would take to hold all the champagne he had drunk during his adult life (at the rate of a pint a day, even during WWII). Considering that he had brought a couple of journalists along, this wasn’t the smartest thing to do from a P.R. perspective. Somebody on the train also asked Cherwell to compute how many yards of cigars Churchill had smoked during his life, but Cherwell declined. Cherwell’s real name, incidentally, was Frederick Lindemann, and the first name of his father – a German-born naturalized citizen of Britain – was Adolph.
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Given the scale can FDR’s iconic cigarette holder be depicted? It could be a stubbier version of the bayonet on Japanese infantry. Big question is will he be standing or seated? Nice thing about seated is you could make Stalin and Churchill in the same pose to recreate the Yalta Conference.
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@CWO:
An interesting figure to see would be a width measurement on Hermann Goering.
120" = 304.8 cm
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120" = 304.8 cm
That’s lying down
Standing is 120 CM
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@Imperious:
yea Herman… the star pupil of the reason why Germany was “starving” due to Churchill ordering a basic economic blockade of Germany
Is it necessary for you to hijack every thread in which you post?
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Quote from: CWO Marc on April 18, 2017, 06:32:57 am
An interesting figure to see would be a width measurement on Hermann Goering.Hello kurt its not a hyjack. Sorry the info isn’t going your way– but that’s called truth overcoming lies.
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@Imperious:
Quote from: CWO Marc on April 18, 2017, 06:32:57 am
An interesting figure to see would be a width measurement on Hermann Goering.Hello kurt its not a hyjack. Sorry the info isn’t going your way– but that’s called truth overcoming lies.
I find it interesting that both your sentences contain lies.
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@CWO:
Though in fairness Churchill wasn’t exactly anorexic…
You’re kidding me? He famously wore that T-shirt “I beat Anorexia” to Yalta.
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I find it interesting that both your sentences contain lies.
I find it interesting that you cant tell that what you call two lies are actually comments from two different people. I guess baby Herman was one skinny guy who didn’t wear a bottle of perfume.
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@Imperious:
I find it interesting that both your sentences contain lies.
I find it interesting that you cant tell that what you call two lies are actually comments from two different people. I guess baby Herman was one skinny guy who didn’t wear a bottle of perfume.
Your first sentence was “Hello kurt its not a hyjack [sic].” That sentence was a lie, because you very clearly were hijacking this thread.
Your second sentence was, “Sorry the info isn’t going your way– but that’s called truth overcoming lies.” Prior to you writing that comment, your contributions to this thread consisted almost exclusively of inane jokes about Goering, or deliberately deceptive comments about Germany’s food situation. The one statement you made which doesn’t fall into those categories was your comment that “you left out Quisling.” None of your contributions to this thread represent “truth overcoming lies,” which means your second sentence was just as dishonest as your first.
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Your second sentence was, “Sorry the info isn’t going your way– but that’s called truth overcoming lies.” Prior to you writing that comment, your contributions to this thread consisted almost exclusively of inane jokes about Goering, or deliberately deceptive comments about Germany’s food situation. The one statement you made which doesn’t fall into those categories was your comment that “you left out Quisling.” None of your contributions to this thread represent “truth overcoming lies,” which means your second sentence was just as dishonest as your first.
Kurt they let you out of the Wannsee conference early? oh dear.
too many you/your… cant read it.
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