On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:29:04 GMT, Rob Perkins wrote:

Hm, I don't have the details, but isn't there a stoy about the Japanese
ambassador to the USA being late delivering the declaration of war?

Yeah. He was late. Wouldn't have changed the outcome.

true. formalism only.

That was the day
that brought the U.S. into the war, and the first time in a longlong
time that the U.S. had had its backside handed to it by an aggressive
enemy.

besides: this was the last time the USA declared war.

And, yes, I don't think the outcome of WWII would have been a free
Austria without the U.S. in the middle of it.

true

Roosevelt was one of the
principal founders of the United Nations, after all.

but the UN had nothing to do with our peace treaty (at least: we had one,
Germany had none)

I don't think
Stalin, Degualle, and Churchill would have been able to pull it off;
Stalin would not have come to the table. And even in '45 Britain could
not have stood alone against the U.S.S.R.'s creation of satellite
states.

yes. And it sure was also good negotiations by Leopold Fiegl.

Had Russia freed Austria

first troops to free Vienna where Russian troops.

it would not have been the neutral
republic it was for the last half of the 20th.

yep. Funny thing that it was possible to form such a small nation with
neutrality at that time.

Rob

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