Ukraine Dispatches The Free World Paused...
Ukraine Dispatches
The Free World Paused
18 February 2025
Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with the German Chancellor Adolf Hiter ~ the Munich Pact 1938
On 1 September 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. Great Britain and France each delivered an ultimatum to Berlin that if Germany did not immediately withdraw their troops from Poland, then a state of war would exist between them. It was ignored.
On 3 September 1939 a sombre, almost broken-voiced, Neville Chamberlain who would die of cancer in November 1940, announced to the British People and the British Commonwealth and Empire, and the World,
that no such undertaking has been received and that, consequently, this Country is at war with Germany.
Europe lay strewn at Hitler’s feet. In June 1940, “the evil of ferocious genius, Corporal Hitler”, [iii] went on holiday in Paris.
The Free World paused… It’s all up. But one Island resisted.
The veteran Marshal Petain, soon to be the leader of the collaborationist Vichy France, was convinced that Britain would fall as had done France. History reports that Marshal Petain felt it wise to put the British prime minister Winston Churchill straight with a little fatherly advice.
Within three weeks Britain would have its neck wrung like a chicken. [i]
I can imagine that that would not have gone down too well.
The dictator Churchill a little later on proffered a reply to the hapless Marshal…
Some chicken, some neck! [ii]
Today, in 2025, and let this be underscored, for this is what happened as dawn broke on Thursday 24 February 2022…
The Free World Paused and Ukraine Resisted
The American People have brought back to office … in their short 248-year history … an independent nation. 391 million Americans - including the forty-eight per cent who voted ‘against’ - are now responsible to the world as never before in their short history. Freedom and democracy must underpin politicians on all sides. If not…
Munich February 2025 has demonstrated to all where now the real interests of America lie.
18 February 2025
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Notes
[i] Winston Churchill, in a speech in a radio recording relating to his six-volume record of the Second World War
[ii] Winston Churchill on 30 December 1941 during his Address to The Canadian Parliament in Ottawa
[iii] UK Foreign Office notes online dated 29 March 2012
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
