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"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message 
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"peter skelton" <skelto...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message
>news:7hkl68ts1v4ghagr8bkd0uo4acmak6h62j@4ax.com...
>
>"Keith W" <keithnospoofsple...@demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Fred J. McCall wrote:
>>> "Keith W" <keithnospoofsple...@demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are many definitions of warmongering but last 
>>>> time
>>>> I checked
>>>> none involved refusing to to sell the necessary
>>>> materials of war to
>>>> the aggressor.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Selling weapons and war material (or giving it) to one
>>> side only is
>>> usually sufficient to qualify one as a combatant.
>>>
>>
>>Well no as I recall the only aid that reached China before
>>the
>>Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour was in the form of trucks
>>and rail road equipment to open the Burma road. The first
>>weapons were not shipped until Feb 1942
>>
>
>>Lend Lease for China started in April of 1941.  This ended
>>all
>pretense of US neutrality.
>
>That, of course, is arrant nonsense. The first deliveries
>were in early 1942.
>

>Try reading the words I wrote again, Keith, instead of what 
>you want
them to have been.

I wrote that Fred. You are in no position to blather about 
not reading.

>LEND LEASE FOR CHINA STARTED IN APRIL OF 1941.

Not true.

>Or do you think the Japanese were too stupid to know about 
>something
that was in all the papers at the time?

The passage of an act allowing an action is not the action. 
As I said, the first deliveries were in early 1942.

(They were .30 American knock-offs of Enfields that would 
take reworking to .303 before they were useful. First 
delivery to the soldiers was somewhat later.)
-- 
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such 
unfamiliar
territory."
                                      --G. Behn