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I think I've posted on this subject before, but FWIW, Canadian officials
had absolutely nothing to do with Trotsky's arrest in Halifax on 3 April
1917; it was carried out by British naval authorities (Lt. M. Jones, RNVR
at the head of an armed party from the HMS Devonshire)
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No question at all that Lenin's peace with Germany (formally concluded in
March 1918 following the armistice of Dec. 1917) allowed the latter to
shift forces to the Western Front and launch a series of big attacks.
Re Jacob Schiff's role in all this, there's not much certain at
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Out of curiosity, has anyone run across reference to or material on the
so-called Green Dragon Society which may or may not be linked to the BDS
and various Chinese secret societies? The basic question is whether the
GDS exists or ever existed at all.
Regards,
Rick Spence
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My typo,
1,506,000 is Dupuy's figure for Japanese military deaths.
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FWIW, according to R.E. and T.N. Dupuy's _Encyclopedia of Military
History_, 2nd Revised ed., p. 1198, the number of WWII *military dead*
was:
USA--292,100
Britain--397,762 (less than half their WWI loss)
France--210,671 (less than 1/6 their WWI loss)
USSR--7,500,000 (includes @
For those interested in Crowley's connection to British Intell, at least
in the WWI period, I humbly suggest you may want to look at my "Secret
Agent 666: Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence in America,
1914-1918" in _International Journal of Intelligence and
CounterIntelligence_, Vol. 13,
Anyone interested in the background and credentials of the Rev. Pranaitis
(or Pronaitis) should check out
www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8815/pranaitis.html
Basically, his abilities as a hebraist and Talmud expert seem to have been
rather exaggerated.
It may be worth noting that Pranaitis was
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A good, basic text is L.S. Stavrianos, _The Balkans since 1453_ (1958).
Although old, Ferdinand Schevill's _A History of the Balkan
Peninsula_(1922, reprint 1971) and William Miller, _The Ottoman Empire and
Its Successors, 1801-1927_ (1936) remain useful and informative.
Various
