Our resident ethnographer, Bob W, will correct me if I'm wrong, but the British army has traditionally consisted of German (Anglo-Saxon) men led by French (Norman) officers.

So no wonder we stymied them.

John

PS: It's still the same today, after nearly a thousand years. We have generals with names like De la Billliere, and men with names like Miller.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:03:34 -0400, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The French and Germans governments are trying to do something in law they were never able to do with military force, because the British always managed to stop them. Bob W wrote:

Hi,

[...]

I personally do not see what is the big outcry about passports. You intend to
vote, you register to vote. You intend to drive a vehicle, you get a driver's
licence. You intend to travel to another country, you get a passport.
Acquiring the appropriate documents to do certain things has been a fact of
life, worldwide, for a very long time now -- and passports in particular are
nothing new.


[...]

We're trying to do away with them in Yurp.







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