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Cymraeg, a crucial detail to raise.

Weygand would fight? During the evacuation at Dunkirk it took extreme efforts to get the man to actually meet with key allied officers, although he didn't hesitate to suggest plans based on what he knew were imaginary force levels.

That was why the US ambassador in question saw her career ended when it turned out she had consistently refused to give the truth to Saddam as to how the US would act if he did not leave Kuwait.

A greater Israel where Jews are a small minority...should work well. Not.

Nassar made the mistake of giving verbal support to Mao's China, which meant the end of aid promised by the US State Department. Pro-PRC was an extremely not good thing at the time if you wanted US support. That was why he seized the Suez Canal, to obtain the revenues for the dam on the Nile.

So Lincoln effectively recognizes secession, the loss of key federal positions, and such until he can actually field an army of his own? Getting the needed arms will take quite a bit of time. That won't go over well in the north.

Turkey's interest in fighting the USSR, Great Britain and the US is extremely limited. Ankara remembers how that world war thingie wound up for them a generation earlier not to mention being woefully ill-equipped for such a war.

The king wasn't bluffing, he knew nothing would silence Churchill faster then his idea putting the monarch at risk.

Given the contingents of French ships in British ports including Alexandria any ship grab by Germany is likely to backfire badly.

A French marriage would be highly problematical. When Charles the Sufferer was married to a French princess the Spanish response was hostile to a point beyond belief such that when she died the king of France specifically ordered no autopsy for fear of complications.

Sadly the US did capture the Japanese biowar program, which is why the criminals involved generally escaped justice after the war.

Meanwhile, how would Hillary, the wife of an obscure governor and possible VP candidate, be a credible candidate for the White House?:confused:

One question is that of just how Norway obtains adequate weaponry for the mobilized reserves.

Trying to understand why Reagan winning would result in Nelson Mandela going on to do exactly what he rejected OTL.:confused:

A German defeat in 1940 means that there isn't a Kriegsmarine adequate to attempt a second invasion in the future.

Actually the B-17s were sent over Taiwan and returned with sorrowful tales of fog banks...just in time to land as the Japanese aircraft arrived.

Brazil and South Africa would not offer asylum to an enemy head of state.

People in South Africa were moving out, hard to have a society based on a particular group without that group. As HeavyWeaponsGuy pointed out a key factor was having Nelson Mandela available to negotiate in good faith.

Claudius, feel better and welcome back to producing this fine storyline.:)

This would leave the ships fully manned and the internal doors not effectively locked open, reducing the effect of leakage from torpedo strikes.