Did Brits Kill New York City Cops to Get U.S. into WWII?

by Guest Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:22 am

The sequence of events appears tells a damning story: On June 4, 1940, Nazi Germany shoved the last British troop off the Continent at Dunkirk. Adolf Hitler moved his forces into position for a final cross-Channel invasion and occupation of England. That same month the new British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, dispatched a shadowy figure, Sir William Stephenson—later most famous as the original of Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Agent 007—to set up a spy shop for Britain’s MI6 in Midtown Manhattan. A hero of World War One and self-made multi-millionaire, Stephenson was on neutral ground in America, but he and Churchill shared the conviction that nothing was more important to their nation’s chances for survival than winning American support for the war against Hitler. Then, on July 4, 1940, with throngs of holiday visitors at the New York World’s Fair, a time bomb planted in the British Pavilion exploded, instantly killing two New York City policemen and badly mauling five others. Was Stephenson behind the blast in an attempt to frame Nazis and their American sympathizers? Were these officers sacrificed to win American sympathy and draw a reluctant United States into the Second World War?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/did-brits-kill-new-york-city-cops-to-get-us-into-wwii

Very interesting, but also very speculative and not based on hard evidence.

by 'Wolfie Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:08 am

And here I was, always thought that it was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour that was effectively "the last straw" that finally pushed the USA over the edge and into WWII...

by nicko Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:45 am

It was !

by Raggamuffin Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:49 am

Germany declared war on the US. What would have happened if Hitler had not done that?

by magica Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:33 pm

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

And here I was, always thought that it was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour that was effectively "the last straw" that finally pushed the USA over the edge and into WWII...

It was, Japan doing this made America enter the war. Although they were helping us behind the scenes so to speak.

by magica Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:34 pm

Raggamuffin wrote:Germany declared war on the US. What would have happened if Hitler had not done that?

Hitler didn't declare war on America, Japan did, well that's what I read anyway.

by Guest Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:38 pm

magica wrote:
Raggamuffin wrote:Germany declared war on the US. What would have happened if Hitler had not done that?

Hitler didn't declare war on America, Japan did, well that's what I read anyway.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-declares-war-on-the-united-states

by Raggamuffin Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:03 pm

magica wrote:
Raggamuffin wrote:Germany declared war on the US. What would have happened if Hitler had not done that?

Hitler didn't declare war on America, Japan did, well that's what I read anyway.

Germany then declared war on the US.

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