Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not all Republicans. Jeanette Rankin, our country's first Congresswoman, a Pacifist, a Suffragette, and a Republican, was the sole Congressional vote against entering World War II. If nothing else, she was consistent, having voted against entering World War I as well. Curiously, she only served two noncontiguous terms, which happened to coincide with both votes. The Montana Republican was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment gave all American women the right to vote. -rei H&ECummer wrote: > Larry, Mark > What the attack did was to eliminate the republican opposition in > Congress to declaring war on Japan and Germany. > Up to that point Roosevelt had had an awful time summoning enough > votes to just get lend lease passed so that Britain > could have the materiel to hang on until American attitudes had > changed enough that American would come into the war. > It was a very close thing! > Cheers > Howard (who reads political history for fun) >> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:53:22 -0500 >> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 44, Issue 86 >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> >> Mark writes: >> Whatever the origin of the pictures, they do illustrate the terrifying >> effects of a major attack. I haven't read much about the history of the >> Pacific war, but that attack must have really hurt the US's capability >> to wage war for quite some considerable time. How long did it take to >> rebuild those ships and train replacement sailors and marines? >> >> - - - - - - >> >> I'm not a military historian but it is my belief that the Japanese Pearl >> Harbor attack did not achieve its objectives regardless of the number of >> ships sunk and people killed. The attack occurred at a time when naval >> warfare was changing from a combat between ships at comparatively short >> range using cannons to one where ships battled at long range using >> aircraft. >> The US carrier fleet was not in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and escaped >> intact. The subsequent battle of Midway was largely a carrier operation >> which inflicted disproportionate losses on the Japanese navy and >> turned the >> tide of the Pacific war. >> Larry Z >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information