By Ewen Montagu
As plans received less than manner for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to lie to the Germans into pondering the following touchdown could ensue in Greece. The cutting edge plot used to be such a success that the Germans moved a few of their forces clear of Sicily, and weeks into the genuine invasion nonetheless anticipated an assault in Greece. This amazing operation known as for a useless physique, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and wearing fake information regarding a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to scrub up on a Spanish shore close to the city of a identified Nazi agent.
Agent Montagu tells the tale as in basic terms an insider may well, supplying attention-grabbing information of the problems involved--especially in making a personality for a guy who by no means was--and of his career as a secret agent and the hazards inquisitive about mounting one of these complicated operation. Failure can have had devastating effects. luck, in spite of the fact that, introduced a determined switch through the battle.
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The British, threatened like Russia in both East Asia and Europe, concentrated their attention, like the Russians and later the Americans, on what was perceived as the more dangerous threat in Europe. While beginning to rearm, their belief that a war anywhere would eventually involve them led the London government to try for local peaceful solu tions of specific issues or, as an alternative procedure capable of simul taneous implementation, to secure a general settlement with Germany in which economic and colonial concessions would be exchanged for German acceptance of the essentials of the status quo in Central and Eastern Europe.
From one war to another ij the last war, civilians can be castigated with equal justice for trying to avoid it. In both cases, there is a measure of value in circumspectly drawn lessons of limited application, but the conceptualization is inher ently faulty even if understandable. One can no more avoid a war one has already been in than one can refight a conflict that is over; but as the recurrent discussion in the United States of not getting into another Vietnam should remind one, these obvious truths rarely prevent anyone from trying.
This, of course, is nonsense. All the reparations were paid: the devastated towns were rebuilt, the orchards replanted, the mines pumped out and all the pensions to survivors were paid (with some still being paid). The bill was simply shifted to other shoulders, primarily the very countries that had seen their economies suffer most from the war. This shifting of the burden of repair costs from the less damaged German economy to the more damaged economies of others thus served to redouble rather than off-set the impact of the war itself.
