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Entry: Man of the Century Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/man_of_the_century#27773 Post contents: Peace between Britain and Germany in 1940 would have been followed by: South Africa leaving the Commonwealth; diplomats from Australia and New Zealand showing up in Washington D.C. asking for security guarantees from the US; an uprising in Egypt; a revolt in Iraq; the withdrawal of Canadian, Australian and New Zealand army unites in Great Britain, never to return; the withdrawal of Australian and New Zealand army units in the Middle East, never to return; the general belief in the US that Britain was now a German ally - whether or not this was true; an immediate decision by the United States to end all sales of military equipment to Britain. What would have happened to the 8 million tons of commercial shipping from Holland and Norway that came under British control after the defeat of those two countries? Shipping that was critical to the survival of Britain during the early months of the Battle of the Atlantic. There would have been no sharing of British technical advances in radar and sonar with the United States, delaying the deployment of radar in the US military by 2 years. Other than the above list of problems, peace would have been a good idea. (Sarcasm intended.) Steven Zoraster Sent at: 2008 12 03