"Jeff Liebermann" wrote
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:08:05 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
wrote:

Seventy years ago the U.K declared war on Germany
And they were alone !

WW 2.0 started on Sept 1, when Germany invaded Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland_(1939)
It took England and France 3 days to decide what to do next. They
eventually declared war, then did nothing through the phoney war until
May 10, 1940, when Germany reminded them that they were at war by
invading the Benelux countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_war

" In their hurry to re-arm, Britain and France had both begun buying large
amounts of weapons from manufacturers in the US at the outbreak of
hostilities, supplementing their own productions."

It was not the phoney war but the economic war.
S*