My actual point was by the end of WW2 Churchill and Britain had no influence on events. And Stalin could run rings round Truman. Yalta and Potsdam agreements were a disgrace. Many Poles who fought for the West were disgraced, imprisoned and worse when they returned home. But short of the West taking on the Red Army at the end of WW2, what else could be done? (Churchill’s only concern was that Greece would remain outside the Soviet camp as he had romantic ideas that Greece was the birthplace of the concept of Democracy). That was the reality at the time.
Real politics I’m afraid mike J. Although by the end of the war what influence Churchill still had is debatable and I think he knew that there was very little the West could do to stop the Soviets doing what they wanted in the east.
Hardly – the company pays for the ticket don’t they?
In Napoleon’s example the “fat cat” himself hadn’t paid, just claimed his lobster off his company expenses. Not that I’ve ever seen lobster at an air show come to think of it.
P.S. Does the word FREELOADER also apply to the corporate fat cats who get their free gold pass and Lobster dinner courtesy of a free day out at the expense of the companies they use.
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