[quote=Gotthard Heinrici,Oct 5 2005, 06:52 PM]
[/[quote]]Geoff, I do believe Jimbo is confusing North Africa with Albania. Indeed The greeks intervened there with Disastrous consequences for the Italians. [[quote]]
Hi Gothard,
I was having a think about the other parts!!
With respect to the above quote I did take it as Greece from the allied perspective however the allies arrived in Greece only 5 or 6 days after the Italians invaded from Albania.
[[quote]]As regards Jimbo's question about a Government in Exile declaring war, I am a little confused. The French declared war on Germany in 1939 and its government did not go into exile until after France was invaded in `1940.[/[quote]]
You are correct however I did not make a comment in that post as it was unclear of Jimbo's intention here.
The French government did indeed declare war in 1939 however with the German invasion and subsequent capitulation the Vichy government was installed. Theoretically would that have negated the first declaration? Charles de Gaulle declared/offered himself as the Free French leader although he was not the "preferred" leader according to Roosevelt as he disliked and distrusted him.
Having said that, and we do call de Gaulle "the government" in exile would he then indeed have the need to re declare war on Germany as he did not and was not in the legal sense, "a Government"? (I think he was undersecretary for defence or war)
Theoretically there was no French government in exile as Reynaud's ministry resigned in bordeaux and left the government in charge of Marshall Petain.
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]So I'm not sure why you're asking that question given that it never needed to happen
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Gotthard, I have lost the meaning of this last quote.....sorry. I have had a bad week.
Could you please redirect.
I think you are referring to the declaration of war??