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=> Winston Churchill.....

Winston Churchill.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, June 12 2016, 14:09:58 (UTC)
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...arguably his plan to attack the Turks at the Dardanelles, seize Istanbul and therefore knock the Turks out of the war would have shortened the war, saved many lives and ended the quagmire in the trenches of France...it was a good idea and a good plan except it wasn't carried out the way he'd envisioned, turning into a major disaster..but the idea was sound.

..the irony is that it was Churchill who did more than anybody to drive the Turks into the war. Just as hostilities were being declared two battleships being built in Britain and paid for and intended for the Ottomans, were seized by the Brits on orders from Churchill, who was head of the Admiralty. The ships had been paid for by a subscription drive in Turkey which collected pennies from Turkish citizens....even their crews had traveled to Britain to steer the ships home when Churchill seized them, claiming the Brits needed them more...and no compensation was ever made....this angered the Ottomans so they threw in their lot with the Germans and the entire world suffered for it.



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