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The Regency Act (1937) made it so that the regent had to be the Heir presumptive. So long as over the age of 21, a British subject domiciled in the United Kingdom, and capable of succeeding to the Crown under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701. In which case there is no choice...

To be fair, he wasn't really a crook, his arrest is the biggest case of entrapment I've ever heard of. He got arrested to trying to finance people that never existed with a deal that never existed with money that never existed all because an undercover operation kind of made him do it. He...

But the problem is, how will the Allies know victory will eventually be secured as Germany will implode? Hindsight is a lovely thing. But even if this is the case, I doubt the French, nor Belgians are going to content with vast lands under German control and are hardly likely to listen to...

Wait the British never used creeping barrages? That's an interesting fact I've never come across before. Do you have a source? I was always under the assumption the British were pretty innovative, given the circumstances other posters have made clear.

ASB should refer to a country like Finland winning the World Cup with a June 2014 POD. I'm not sure why people are thinking it's so impossible. Football has so many variables, bad goals conceded, own goals, injuries, cards, bad referring, etc that I don't think it's too much to stretch to...

The colonists demands were a little more than getting representation. The revolution came about as the colonists began to recognise themselves more as Americans than as British. The Navigation acts which made free trade possible for all British ships was intended to cover the colonists, as they...

Weren't a great number of 'Australians' in this period British born? Especially Émigrés after WWI? That makes have Australia, and particularly the army take an anti-British stance considering a lot were born, had spend youths or had immediate family that were 'British'.

Aren't type VII's restricted by their range? Getting to the Pacific is a big enough problem, but operating in the largest ocean, especially in earlier configuration is an even greater problem. Type IX's are the only option, but even then they'd be better suited to the Indian Ocean. But...

Fundamentally, I agree with you. Spain wouldn't, or couldn't join the Axis without all of these demands. But I've always been lead to Believe Franco knew Germany could not meet these demands, and had no intention of joining the axis, at least, not in 1940. Spain was bankrupt and relied on...

Er, I was under the impression that Franco intentionally asked for things he knew Hitler couldn't provide, such as food, oil and military supplies because he had no interest in joining the Axis, at that time at least, but couldn't outright say no because he felt he owed Hitler somewhat. So he...

I was going to say this, but after reading his post, he has something like a get out clause that Battleships were only damaged enough that could be finished off. But you are right, a cruiser is not going to sink the Bismarck until FAA had done enough damage to essentially destroy it. It could...

That is true, but, has already been risen, 100% of the insurgents were not ethnically Chinese, so had I written 'Chinese' I still too, would have been wrong. 'Malay Insurgents' is wrong, yes, but not totally, as some insurgents were in fact Malay. I should have written Malayan insurgents yes...

Jeez, are you being serious? Ok, I made a mistake in semantics there, but only in a reply to which I made none. Sure, I made that mistake there, but only after I was forced to reply on a moot point. I have read my comment over and over, and I simply cannot find the semantic error in 'Malay...

Erm, did you even read my post? What was my first point: ... Yes, I meant insurgents in Malaysia, if Flocculencio had read my reply, it would have made sense ... Again, I noted that it was not the ethnic Malaysians that were insurgents, "Malay Insurgents" is the same level of correct...

As much as I'd like to say Britain won their 'Vietnam War', as I have argued on other forums, I now have to point out why the two wars were very different conflicts. Mainly, the majority of communist insurgents in Malaysia were the ethnic Chinese minority, whilst in Vietnam, the communists...