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Thank you for entertaining us! I loved Haile Sellasie being kicked out - Imperial Ethiopia was a slave owning hellhole which would had fitted nicely in the XVIIIth century if not earlier.

1 - As black voters are not a hive mind, maybe those in the South vote GOP and those in the North vote Dem? 2 - Question re the quoted graph - what % of Southern blacks voted pre Civil Rights? Are the pre-1960 figures chiefly for North&West voters?

With accelerated Civil Rights - and the Black Vote come early to US politics - there might be some impact on foreign policy. Considering how nasty the British were in Kenya there could be some anti-British sentiment. In Africa the French could be nasty too, of course - but US journalists no...

Going back to my favourite subject :) - All Volunteer Force - if the Army is being used to Assist the Civil Power (to use a British phrase) then volunteers are better than conscripts - they should be more uniform ideologically. If I understand US Legislation - the Selective Service Act needs...

So there is a chance that Dugout Doug might become the All Volunteer Force champion?

As always a fascinating read. BTW - conscription - IIRC by the late '50s the draft was contributing something like 30K men a year for the forces. The rest were volunteers. So, kill it? No pentonomic division nonsense ITTL?

The post-war guerillas in Central Europe had been squashed by 1950, true, but look at 1956 events. Thinking more about it - the PRC is gutted, losing most (I imagine some to be out of town or in bunkers) of its political and military leadership as well as part (most?) of its then industrial...

Not too early for such TV coverage? Unrest in East-Central Europe upon news of use of nukes in the Far East? There were quite a few locals hoping for WWIII and liberation from Soviet (direct or indirect) rule, so I'd expect some riots. Impact on Vietnam? China messed up by nukes and/or with...