The Kellogg-Briand Pact

July 24th, 2007

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In 1941, Loose Cannon Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence held the keys to North Africa. Of course, it might have been a very different campaign but for the support of his Arab allies. Had the British succumbed to Zionist pressure in 1917 and issued the Balfour Declaration, Lawrence believed the Afrika Korps would right now be pushing the British Eighth Army back into Cairo. Churchill's 1922 White Paper had again denied that a state of Israel was the intention of the British Government and that was just as well for the North Africa Campaign. Actually, Lawrence was in favour of a state but along different lines. He dreamt of unifying the races in Palestine, under the technical leadership of what he was awed enough to call the eternal miracle of Jewry. Yet he had no time for Zionism. None at all.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of Susan Shwarz original content has been made to celebrate the author's commanding genius.

"I had to escape The city was sticky and cruel Maybe I should have called you first But I was dying to get to you I was dreaming while I drove The long straight road ahead Uh-huh, yeah
Roy Orbison	Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide This fever for you was just burning me up inside I drove all night to get to you Is that all right?" ~ Lyrics to “I Drove All Night” (B. Steinberg, T. Kelly)- Click to Play Sample
Musical Genius

Describing his return to Gallatin, TN on June 7, 1966. His wife Claudette had narrowly escaped death from a motorcycle accident. The full lyrics are available at Power of the Music

~ quotation by Co-Historian Steve Payne from Counter-history – You're the Judge!

In 1940, the Wheel of If had turned for New York Assistant DA Allister Park who found himself in the same-location city of New Belfast in the Bretwaldate of Vinland. Park discovered that this America was the result of a heretical and schismatic refusal by the Ionian Church in 664 AD to adopt the Latin calendar date for Easter. More confusingly, Allister Park was now Judge Ib Scotlung, and he had just been appointed Pugnacious Peacekeeper.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 2009, TV networks ran episode fifteen of So What If?. Klaus Fuchs sabotaged the Trinity test at Alamagordo. The November 1945 invasion of Japan goes ahead as planned, whilst the Manhattan Project is shoved into the deep freeze following a Congressional investigation led by a state judge from Wisconsin – Joseph McCarthy. With American/British/Commonwealth forces locked in Japan, Russians overrun Europe before a recalled Winston Churchill saves the day..

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Kellogg-Briand Pact..	In 1929, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect. The pact was named after the American secretary ..
.. of state Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand, who drafted the framework agreement. It was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers, ushering in a new era of peace of prosperity.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1901, from Onguiaahra (known to the European as Niagara Falls) Iroquois soul-deeps promoted the north-eastern seaboard of the Turtle Island to a sub-node in the Mesh, the global network of First Nation consciousness founded at Manna-hata in 1492.	Onguiaahra
Breathless European witness 63-year-old Annie Edson Taylor recorded “No one should ever try that again.” The flight of Angels burst into the Onguiaahra River as indigenes around the globe celebrated the dawning of a new age of inter-connectivity.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Charles de Gaulle	In 1967, during an official state visit to the North American Union, French President Charles de Gaulle declared to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the British government and many English North Americans.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 2002, the Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio James Anthony Traficant, Jr. was the subject of federal investigation. Allegations of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington, D.C. were ..	James Traficant
.. found to be true. Recognized for his iconoclastic flamboyance, Majority Leader Teddy Kennedy paid a gushing tribute to Traficant on the “Tonight Show” for “keeping it gangsta”.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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