[Healeys] 100 Service Manual trivia query

[Alan Seigrist]

Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill

:)

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, Oudesluys wrote:

> Alan, you make me curious. Who are those two greatest Dutch leaders in
> history and who is the greatest PM??
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Op 30-4-2013 9:16, Alan Seigrist schreef:
>
>> Hong Kong was in the British Empire because FDR had died in early 1945, if
>> you can believe it.  FDR was vehemently anti-colonial and Churchill
>> understood in principle that they would have to give up all colonies in
>> exchange for US help in the war.
>>
>> FDR, fortunately for the British, died before the end of the war and with
>> Truman (a Missouri haberdasher) in the Whitehouse, he was much less
>> concerned with the colonies.  Because Truman was President when the war
>> was
>> over, Hong Kong was not handed over to Chiang Kai Shek... meaning that if
>> FDR had survived the war, Hong Kong as part of the ROC would have turned
>> communist in 1949.
>>
>> It's also good fun to know the two greatest Dutch leaders in history were
>> American Presidents, and the greatest Prime Minister in the history of
>> Britain was half American.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>>
>>  In those days Hong Kong was part of the British Empire, so still British
>>> printed.
>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>> NL
>>>
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