The Owen Gun, The Betrayal Begins
Part Two, The Betrayal Begins.
3 D Cad Program Image of Owen Gun
War is very rarely caused by a single act of aggression. In fact, it is so rare, I cannot think of a real one. Not the sinking of the Maine, or the attack on Pearl Harbour or the German reported attack by the Poles on Germanies Border Post on the 1st of December 1939. War is caused by the forces which motivate people, either into preparing for war, building up aggressive tools of war, or conversely but just as powerful, by reducing the defences and disarming the nation. As we have observed over the last sixty years with NATO and the Warsaw Pact, when two opposing forces are armed to the teeth, strangely, we have peace. When we have a country disarming, and a civilisation which is beginning to crumble and its neighbours embark on building a war machine, then war is imminent, you can put money on it! Then we have War and have to sacrifice the generations.
In December 1941 Australia’s cotton wool world of false security disappeared like the morning mist, it awoke to the stark realisation that unless they all personally took part in its defence they could only expect invasion, subjection and death. They had seen what had occurred elsewhere and felt that they were now in the queue to take their turn. Australians had a large part of the worlds natural resources and virtually no capacity, both industrial or human, to defend it with.
Two dimensional drawing of the Owen Gun with Specifications and Dimensions
Wars are caused by people for many different reasons. I used to believe it was to make money for the industrialists, but have since concluded that the motivating power brokers for war have all as much money as they ever would need in ten lifetimes. It is power that motivates the deathly diabolical war dance . If these people wanted more money, they only had to print it. They own the Clearing House Bank in every country in the world. No, it is not money, it is power that is the fuel for war, if it is not the expansion of it, then when it is a lack of it, like a vacuum, it implodes sucking in power to replace it like a double acting steam engine. War gets poor peoples’ minds off their grim existence, the thought of having no existence at all purges all ideologies. If a politician wants job security, he has to find a war. If his country is divided, nothing will unite it like an invasion. War will galvanise the country and make everyone face in the same direction, that is the way politicians seek to answer their worst internal problems with war.
In the 1930s the British Empire was crumbling in a similar way to the current slow disintegration of its inheritors the American Empire. In 1931 Evelyn Owen began to design a sub -machine gun or to describe it more correctly ‘The Owen Machine Carbine’.
World War One and World War Two could fairly be described as the Two Wars of British Succession. They have often been described as the same war with just a truce in-between the open warfare. Hostilities never really stopped, just a twenty year ceasefire. The combatant countries all manoeuvred to succeed territory and influence from the diminishing Empire. Prior to these wars, Britannia truly ‘Ruled the Waves’. Britain had an industrial boiler room that exported to the world, since Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar in 1805, the wooden walls of oak had dominated the high seas and with sea power effectively controlling the world. The Brits were first in the age of steel ships, first in the age of steam, first in the oil fired steam turbine engine, they built the first aircraft carriers.
British Grand Fleet Review, Solent Isle of Wight july 1914.
Two factors occurred;
1), Competition in Naval sea power from Germany, Japan and the United States and
2), Britain had become an importer of goods instead of an exporter.
Britain began to export the machines that manufactured their own industries, one example was when the Shanghai Cotton trading share market opened in the early 1920s the Cotton Industry of Lancashire terminated almost overnight. Cotton grown and manufactured in India and China was traded in Shanghai and exported to the world. The Mill towns of the North of England starved. Britain the country that made everything from a Battleship to the shirt on your back found itself struggling for its economic survival.
The third world could make it cheaper, no longer could Britain afford to produce Battleships that were out classed before they hit the slipway and were obsolete before sea trials were completed. Countries with larger labour populations and easy access to huge natural resources were gaining the ascendancy.
Even so, prior to World War Two Britain had navel bases in the all of the most strategic places, the Mediterranean Sea was an English lake with Gibraltar at one end and Suez Canal at the other, Malta and Cyprus in between. Aden held the Straits of Hormuz nothing could happen in the Persian Gulf without their say so and the same applied from Hong Kong to Singapore, from Diego Garcia to Ascension Island and to the Falkland Islands all the worlds trade routes were dominated by British bases. They did not own the Panama Canal but with Island bases the Brits could oversee all of its traffic. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Lahore Britannia Ruled the Waves. Germany and Japan were not the only country’s that were covetous, the United States could see the fall and decline and was manoeuvring itself to gain from Britain’s decline. The United States was the winner of both of the Wars of Succession. Britain and the Commonwealth was the real long term losers.
Unfortunately Adolph Hitler understood perfectly the fall and decline of the British Empire and wanted a large slice of the pie. His failing was he didn’t have a crystal ball and could not see what the future would bring to his 1000 year Third Reich. He never really understood or appreciated the skill of the greatest strategist of his time Franklin D. Roosevelt who was President of the USA from march 1933 until his death in April 1945. Hitler wanted revenge for World War One this blinded him to almost everything else, all of his energy was directed, to training his whole nation for war, and he used that momentum to take his country out of the last World Depression.
He was obviously helped and assisted by his financiers, but he knew that the same psychological forces that worked on a nation, would work on the world.
Nurenberg Rally, All these people must have been killed in WW2, as after the War I never met a German who liked Hitler.
Both Hitler and Franklin D Roosevelt knew that if the world faced war often enough, people would unite to repel it. Both wanted to be the last man standing, that the world would turn to. They knew that when people unite in a community, a village, a nation, or united nations, that they, by the nature of human history, sacrifice their individual right, their individual power over their lives, they surrender it for the common good to hopefully gain greater community security. While Britain slumbered through the 1930s the contestants contrived and played the cards they had been dealt by there financiers.
During the depression of the 1930s Franklin Delano Roosevelt proceeded to unite his country, the United States of America in the same way but in a less obvious manner. It was easier for him, as he appeared only to be reacting to the new bad guy on the block Adolph Hitler. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ had never worked. It was like trying to borrow money from a bank to pay the debt to another bank, and finding out that they are both the same bank, and the debt just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and that they own all the money anyway and you cannot get any, so the borrower starts pulling his house down and pays the bank with bricks until there are no bricks left.
Franklin D. Roosevelt dilemma a scene from the USA in the 1930s Depression.
By 1937, Roosevelt like the current US President, had run out of bricks, he had run out of ideas to remain in power and to advance his career opportunities. He had no other option than to find an enemy! At the same time, he had to be seen to be the humanitarian. He had to be the injured party, one false move and the American people would remove him. ‘Overseas wars’, were not popular at all with the people of the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt (commonly referred to as FDR) had to be careful about who he picked as an adversary as the American people were a conglomeration of nations from all over the world. There was a great resistance within his country against the United States involvement in another European War. So maybe he thought, ‘who do we have the least of?’ We might have less Mongolians but they could hardly be called a threat, but the Japanese now, we haven’t got many Japanese in America, have we, they could be a threat, couldn’t they?
The roots of the Second War of the British Succession were planted in the end of the first war in 1918, but in the early thirties, the stage was set and the players in the show were learning their lines. It was during naval manoeuvres of 1932 that an American aircraft carrier, slipping past picket destroyers north east of Oahu, had attacked Pearl Harbour in a dawn raid, and sank all the warships anchored there. (Did anyone know that someone from Tokyo was filing a long report about it?)
Next electornic edition….. recomences at Chapter Five Part One
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