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American military officials drew up a secret plan in 1930 for war against Britain in which Canada would be the main battleground. "Joint Plan Red," as it was known, envisaged the elimination of Britain as a trading rival.

Professor Floyd Rudmin of Queens University in Ontario, Canada, charges that the plan was a blueprint for an American invasion of Canada. According to the plan, the United States was prepared to invade Canada if political unrest brought on by Quebec's secession threatened American access to Canada's fresh water and cheap hydroelectric power.

The war plan document was drawn up by the Joint Board of the Army and Navy in May 1930, when Herbert Hoover was President. It identified Britain as Red, Canada as Crimson, Australia and New Zealand as Scarlet, and the U.S. as Blue. Its aim was to dismember the British empire on the grounds of "competition and interference with American foreign trade."

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Pilgrim Fathers and other snippets!

by Fe2O3Girl in

the bbc radio 4 programme "in our time" this week discusses the pilgrim fathers.

here is a link to the programme website where you can listen again:.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml.

Fe2O3Girl

The BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" this week discusses the Pilgrim Fathers. Here is a link to the programme website where you can listen again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

There are some interesting tidbits in the "In Our Time" newsletter which relates to the programme (italics mine):

Squanto, the Indian whom all three contributors thought had literally
saved the Plymouth colony; a proper use of the word ?literally? here.
They would all have been dead had he not taught them how to grow
the crops, use the dead fish, distinguish between trees that were
good for fruit and trees that were good for building, etc, etc. Quite a
life had Squanto. He lived in Cornhill in London for a while and was
imprisoned in Spain for a while. Initially he was kidnapped by English
sailors. This seems to have been a trophy-hunting sport for those
who had been so successful at raiding and looting the Spanish in the
last quarter of the 16th century and, incidentally, building up the first
great British fleet. There was much talk about people who prepared war plans. It seems
that war planners never stop. In 1896 the Republicans declared in
their war plan that if they won the election they would annexe Canada
? ?with their permission!? They seemed to think that Canada was just
waiting to be annexed. In 1912 the Americans had a war plan to
invade Canada. Also in 1912 the English had a magnificent war plan
to mobilise the American Indians to rise up against the Americans,
particularly in the Chicago area, while the navy took over the ports. It
gets more and more wonderful. In 1930 the Americans had war
plans against the British Navy in the Far East.

I could go on, but my pen became unsteady at that point as the three
historians tumbled out these great goodies. They also spoke about
the great war of 1676, perhaps the great defining war in America,
where the colonists destroyed a huge alliance of Indians led by King
Philip (an Indian chief). Ironically, he was the son of Massasoit
who had introduced Squanto to the settlement. The Indians then
pushed west but the destruction on both sides was massive. One of
the historians suggested that there were so many orphans from the
Anglo-American side moving around the place that this could have
been part of the seed of the unrest which led to the Salem trials.

A point that they all made, which I?d like to develop some other time,
is that the Napoleonic War was in fact a world war. The English and
the French were fighting each other in India, in the Caribbean, in
Egypt and the English were also trying to pick off the Dutch colonies.
The two most tantalising comments of all, for me, were first that the
American War of Independence (revolution to us) was a sideshow.
The English were not so worried about losing it and only committed
about 9% of their global forces to fighting it. They figured that if they
lost they would simply form a trading federation with the newly
independent colonies and that?s pretty much what happened.
Links with England continued very powerfully throughout the 18th and
the 19th centuries. The second thing is that the first novel ever
published in America was Richardson?s novel Pamela and it was
published by Benjamin Franklin.

Incidentally, it?s always seemed a bit curious to me that given what
the Americans say they owe to the Separatists and the Pilgrim
Fathers, and indeed it could be proved that they owe a great deal, the
English are so often the villains and while we have people in America
happy to be Afro-Americans and Irish Americans and Hispanic
Americans, I have yet to meet anyone in the United States who has
told me that he was an Anglo-American.

Has anyone else heard of these numerous war plans? So much for the "special relationship"!

Rachel

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Back to the topic - I am in love with a JW

by LindaLu in

i have been dating a very committed jw - he spent some time out of the organisation after a divorce and about a year ago has been granted a fellowship again.

i absolutely adore him - and what is there not to love!

he is the most kind, sweet and lovable man i have ever met.

Fe2O3Girl

There must be a huge number of "faithful, commited" JWs stringing along "worldly" boyfriends and girlfriends.

Here is a link to a collection of threads on this topic:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/32/77159/1.ashx

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Why I was a lurker for so long: because english is not my mother tongue

by Madame in

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i often write on the swedish board for ex-jw: http://www.network54.com/forum/349340/.

it's so much easier for me to write in swedish.

it takes a lot of effort to find the right words in english.. i understand most of what i read here, but it means more hard work to try to express my thoughts in english.. anyway, i finally wanted you all to know that i appreciate this board.

Fe2O3Girl

And yet your posts are more clearly written than many posters who apparently do have English as a first language. Welcome to the board, Madame, and thank you for the effort you have put in to posting!

Rachel

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Fe2O3Girl's Race For Life run

by Scully in

i'm so very pleased to announce that our very own fe2o3girl has signed up to participate in the 5 km race for life in aid of cancer research uk.

http://www.raceforlife.org/allaboutus/ .

the run takes place on july 1 at arley hall near warrington.

Fe2O3Girl

Well after rushing around like a blue-bottomed fly on Sunday morning getting ready for the race, we got stopped by marshals a couple of miles from the venue and turned back - the event has been postponed due to bad weather and safety issues on the course! Gutted!! I popped out and ran my 5K course from home later as I was already kitted up.

The race has been rescheduled for July 28th.

On the downside, this means that my friend who was doing the race with me won't be able to participate because she already has plans for that day. On the upside, it gives me another four weeks to train, and more importantly to get sponsorship. The most important thing is raising funds for the lifesaving work of Cancer Research UK - if I don't get sponsorship, I may as well not have done this.

Rachel

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Fe2O3Girl's Race For Life run

by Scully in

i'm so very pleased to announce that our very own fe2o3girl has signed up to participate in the 5 km race for life in aid of cancer research uk.

http://www.raceforlife.org/allaboutus/ .

the run takes place on july 1 at arley hall near warrington.

Fe2O3Girl

I ran/walked 5K this evening in about 45 minutes. I am really pleased that I have finally done the full distance - roll on Sunday!

Rachel

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Sweet Things

by mrsjones5 in

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friends

since we already have a topic on cooking styles i thought we could have on on desserts (i think we've had a topic in this before oh well let's do it again .

ok i'll start.

there's a resturant in town called sahm's and they have a sour cream cake to die for.

Fe2O3Girl

I love meringues with whipped cream. Strawberries and cream is a favorite at this time of year. Panna cotta is one of my top desserts, although you hardly ever see it served in the UK. The most luscious pudding I have had recently is a banana and butterscotch trifle - it is a Delia recipe:

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/butterscotch-and-banana-trifle-with-madeira,772,RC.html

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Fe2O3Girl's Race For Life run

by Scully in

i'm so very pleased to announce that our very own fe2o3girl has signed up to participate in the 5 km race for life in aid of cancer research uk.

http://www.raceforlife.org/allaboutus/ .

the run takes place on july 1 at arley hall near warrington.

Fe2O3Girl

On one of the races on the Saturday, the last lady home was in wheelchair - and hooked up to her chemo treatment, as soon as she'd finished she went straight back into hospital. What can you say? What an outstanding, courageous soul, a true winner

Wow. A true winner indeed.

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Fe2O3Girl's Race For Life run

by Scully in

i'm so very pleased to announce that our very own fe2o3girl has signed up to participate in the 5 km race for life in aid of cancer research uk.

http://www.raceforlife.org/allaboutus/ .

the run takes place on july 1 at arley hall near warrington.

Fe2O3Girl

Hi Emo! How did your Race for Life go?

My event is on Sunday. My training hasn't gone very well in the last couple of weeks as I have not been able to get to the gym more than once a week due to other commitments, and there has been so much rain here I haven't been able to get out over the fields either. Anyway, I ran/walked two miles at the gym last night in 27 minutes.

Rachel