On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 11:40:31 AM UTC-4, Johan Arve wrote: > > " ... with high-explosive shell, fragments of which inflict poisonous and > festering wounds" > During wwi the British army loaded HE with explosives that gave off > poisonous gases when the shells exploded. Which is what WSC refers to. > > Johan, thanks for that information. People who see the results of Sarin gas in Syria have no concept of what World War I was like.
In my text above, for "car" read "war": We have to consider attitudes at the time. After the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian exit from WW1, this same Churchill advocated sending a "commissar" (as he put it) to Lenin, who would offer—in exchange for Russia re-entering the *war*—that Britain would guarantee Lenin's revolution! This subject will be covered in detail in "Leading Churchill Myths: "Churchill Was An Advocate of Poison Gas," Finest Hour 160, Autumn 2013, out late October. An advance text will be available by email offline. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
