Congratulations to Mr. Prewitt. It should be noted, however, that France’s highest order of merit is called the Legion of Honour (Légion d’honneur), not the Legion of Armour, and also that France doesn’t actually have knighthoods in the same sense as Britain does. “Chevalier” (knight) is indeed one of the Legion of Honour’s five levels, and the name is a holdover from the days when France still had an aristocracy, but the French nobility system went out the window with the French Revolution. I once saw a series of amusing cartoons depicting what life in France would be like today if the Bourbon monarchy hadn’t fallen, and one of them showed an irate air traveler standing at the ticket counter of “Royal Air France” and telling the ticket agent “But I’m a baron and I have a confirmed reservation!” The agent replies, “I’m sorry, sir, but the Duke of So-and-so has precedence over you, so we gave him your seat.” In fairness, the same sort of thing actually happens in real-life republican France. A few years ago, there was scandal involving one of the major D-Day anniversaries (I think it was the 50th one), when the French government contacted various hotels in Normany and appropriated some of their existing reservations so that various French officials could have rooms for the event. Some of those rooms, however, had been reserved by foreign veterans of the D-Day invasion. When the story broke on the front page of French newspapers (under such headlines as “Our Liberators Insulted!”), public opinion was outraged and the French government beat a hasty retreat. The prevailing editorial opinion over this affair was: Do this to our own citizens if you want, but don’t do this to the heroes who ended the occupation of France.
If you were in charge… how you would manage a WWII Era FOOD Crisis?
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You’re people are starving! What are you going to do to balance the equation, and feed the masses?
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Marie Antoinette supposedly considered that such a situation could be easily remedied.
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No work = no food.
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Surrender, wait twenty years, better prepare and try again
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Tell my People the Enemy has food and they must go liberate it from the enemy.
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What about STARVING the enemies of your people that surrender?
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You’re people are starving! What are you going to do to balance the equation, and feed the masses?
(your people)
Well, this is obviously a trick question. Kill some and feed the bodies to the others. What’s so difficult about that?
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NO Gargantua you didn´t… :-D :-D :-D
Building Alliances could be an Idea…but it depends on so many circumstances and the Nation you are representing…
But still I would try a Diplomatic way!.. -
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You’re people are starving! What are you going to do to balance the equation, and feed the masses?
Now, that depends on whether I care about them starving.
If I don’t - then it’s not a problem. Letting them starve is a method applied by such leaders as Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. And it worked for them: they stayed in power for a long time, until their own deaths in fact.
If I do - then I’ll need to fire myself from office for gross incompetence. My people were obviously not starving before, or there wouldn’t be so many of them. So as their leader, I must have messed up pretty badly. Did I send all the peasants to the front to fight? Or did I make war with a former trade partner that I needed badly for food imports? Or did I neglect to stockpile food while still at peace? In each case, I’ve obviously handled the preparation for this war very poorly.
My successors might consider various measures, such as:
(a) Rationing. This seems like a very obvious thing to do.
(b) Making domestic food production a priority and assigning more people to it if necessary.
© Eating all the remaining cattle and not raising any new until the food situation improves.
(d) Finding new trade partners. Neutral or friendly countries could provide some relief.
(e) Stealing some food from conquered lands, but only as a last measure. Former enemies should become new subjects. -
Nonworkers and enemy stock to be transported to central processing plant for dismemberment. Arms and leg sections to be disarticulated by circular saw cuts to waist, knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow and wrist. Roasts to be grilled at 350 degrees for 1 hour using fat from torso waste meat as fuel. Workers to be fed ad libitum once daily until they no longer work at which time they will themselves will be processed. Bones to be crushed and used as gravel in road construction.
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“Non-workers and enemy stock to be transported to central processing plant for dismemberment. Arms and leg sections to be dis-articulated by circular saw cuts to waist, knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow and wrist. Roasts to be grilled at 350 degrees for 1 hour using fat from torso waste meat as fuel. Workers to be fed ad Librium once daily until they no longer work at which time they will themselves will be processed. Bones to be crushed and used as gravel in road construction.”
sounds like either Soylent Green or The Wannsee Conference…
This is what i figured this thread would become
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LOL soylent green.
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Wow, great responses.
I wonder what an EXPERT on the German WWII food crisis would think. Too bad we don’t have one of those on the forums anymore… :P
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No Vance is still here.
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Wow, miss a few days drinking and dancing…well watching others dance anyways…but I digress. We no longer have an expert on the WWII food thingee/justification whatchermacallit?