OK - just read this gem off Wikipedia about Anticosti Island, a large island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence:
"In 1937, the government of Nazi Germany, led at the time by Adolf Hitler, tried unsuccessfully to buy the island. Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King became involved, and forbade the Nazis' plan.[7]"
OK - how do we make this happen? The cite leads to a Canadian forces journal article from 2001. Apparently the Germans were thinking Sub base or somesuch nonesense. They actually came close - the owners of the Island wanted to sell it - but the government stepped in an quashed it. Obviously, the Canadian government allowing this is ASB - heck the British or even American governments would offer more than the Germans for it if it came to it - but how do we make this happen?
It's just too juicy to pass up - even if it is near-ASB.
Mike Turcotte
"In 1937, the government of Nazi Germany, led at the time by Adolf Hitler, tried unsuccessfully to buy the island. Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King became involved, and forbade the Nazis' plan.[7]"
OK - how do we make this happen? The cite leads to a Canadian forces journal article from 2001. Apparently the Germans were thinking Sub base or somesuch nonesense. They actually came close - the owners of the Island wanted to sell it - but the government stepped in an quashed it. Obviously, the Canadian government allowing this is ASB - heck the British or even American governments would offer more than the Germans for it if it came to it - but how do we make this happen?
It's just too juicy to pass up - even if it is near-ASB.
Mike Turcotte