Terence Sydney Airey Quotes
If this matter is not handled very carefully, a third world war might start here.
Trieste was occupied by the British and Americans theoretically, but Tito’s Yugoslavian troops had done most of the WWII fighting and dying in the area and wanted control for the Russian Allies of which Tito was then one. There were frequent armed standoff’s of Anglo Americans and Yugoslav troops that could easily have evolved to full scale fighting. Nine months later, Tito broke with Stalin. An interesting historical fact is that Richard M. Nixon was one of the Congressional Delegation then visiting Trieste.
Terence Sydney Airey, 1900–1983, British General, Commander and Military Governor of the Anglo-American Zone, Trieste,, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, to General Dwight Eisenhower at Supreme Allied Headquarters, Statement to a visiting delegation of members of Congress and MPs, Trieste, September 1947
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This was the last letter she wrote from the White House after her husband was assassinated.
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There were some British politicians who had considered the possibility of supporting the South in the Civil War to assure their supply of cheap cotton. Entering the war by allying with the Confederacy was also a possibility. Lincoln used this phrase and instructed Adams to use that with the British politicians as the result if England get involved with the American Civil war. It is the closest phrase to “World War” until WWI.
Like many in the 1920s, Dewar saw the Communist Soviet Union as the biggest potential risk to peace. However, although the Russian leaders constantly castigated the West, they did not have a large military, and were for the most part highly anti-war as they saw war as the product of Capitalistic competition and the tool of the aristocracy. They had little military equipment and almost no training or officer corps with which to build any Army. Germany in contrast had the skill, experience, officers, a history of aggression, and huge resentment over what they considered their humiliating WWI defeat and peace terms. They would start WWII, not Russia.
Lieutenant General Sir Terence Sydney Airey KCMG, CB, CBE was an officer in the British Army.
