I suppose prior to 1938 there must have been obnoxious scribblers in Austria..
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Hitler’s Germany grabs Austria
March 12, 1938
The crowd welcomes the arrival of Nazi German troops in the city of Vienna.
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Not quite the reception Belfast might offer Eire’s triumphalist storm-troops.
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….pumping out pro-Anschluss propaganda, perhaps headed ‘Making Sense of a Greater Germany‘ but I don’t know for sure.
However, that speculation was my response to reading some presumptuous pap in the ‘Irish Times’ yesterday.
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Reviews: Making Sense of a United Ireland by Brendan O’Leary and Can Ireland Be One? by Malachi O’Doherty
That’s the illustration and here’s the intro.
Policymakers have a duty now to map out in detail what a united Ireland might look like.
Otherwise, we risk the kind of post-referendum conflict and confusion that followed Brexit.
Another, older piece of writing also came to mind.
“Thou shalt not cover thy neighbour’s house.”
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These S.O B.s in their foreign republic issuing provocations?
They’d best rearrange their thinking caps if they imagine that all Dublin’s aggressive expansionism would reap from ‘reunification’ would be acrimonious ‘Brexit-style’ debate.
If they ever got some dirty deal from a sell-out UK government that acquiesced in the denial of the Ulster-British nation’s right to self-determination..
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…the cost to Eire in blood, sweat and tears would be akin to a dress-rehearsal for Armageddon.
As far as I’m aware, the fourth British nation, Ulster, has shown no more sign of ‘disappearing’ than have the other three, Scotland, England or Wales.
’Eroded?’
Undermined, sold out, betrayed, maybe, but the Ulsterfolk, a distinct national identity, can hardly be said to have been ‘eroded.’
Rather, their iron will to survive has been reinforced by constant assaults and affronts…
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…assaults by the same Sinn Fein/IRA gang that embraced literal ethnic cleansing in the past…
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…and is now embedded in Stormont, thanks to B.Liar’s dirty deal with Blood-Beast Adams…
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…and affronts, like Bojo’s weasel words on the border!
However, perhaps it’s better, like Salmond, to be upfront on the issue of whether they should be handed over, bullied, cajoled, however the coercion is seen, to the inherently hostile, expansionist alien republic next door.
Fanatics Fly the Enemy Flag – Would Nazis Have Dared March in Glasgow In 1940?
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And this!
‘..the SNP (separatist) city council in the Scottish city of Glasgow has been allowing disloyal ‘Irish Unity’ fanatics to parade offensively around the streets.’
…at least we now know where we stand as far as Alex Salmond is concerned.
Each and every one of the SNP’s legislators, both in the Scottish Parliament and at Westminster, must be put on the spot and asked if they share his views on the ‘re-unification of Ireland…’
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….an absurd concept in itself, since the island of Ireland was only ever ‘unified’ under the British Crown!
The SNP are no friends to Ulster and not to the monarchy.
They get most of their votes from the disloyals that hate the Union Jack and love that Eire flag.
Even Scots who would like more powers for the Edinburgh parliament will not vote for them because
they are full of republicans that admire Sinn fein and the IRA.
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