[lit-ideas] Re: YesMinisterology
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On 19-Oct-10, at 8:24 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
... Britain will have two new aircraft carriers...but, if I have
understood correctly, no planes to fly on/from them ...
Well, maybe they could borrow some from Iran, or North Korea, or
someone.
At the height of the Cold War, North American defence depended on,
among other things, radar installations in Canada. If I understood
the story from a relative in the Canadian Forces who worked on
maintenance of those installations correctly, the ONLY source for
certain components was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Of (perhaps?) related interest: the other day, for no apparent reason,
I started singing over and over, and then translating into German,
'The Grand Old Duke of York' ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Old_Duke_of_York
Chris Bruce,
neither up nor down, in
Kiel, Germany
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