03-13-2009, 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Adrian Wainer
The choice of, whether Australia should be a republic or a monarchy, is a decision for the citizens of Australia, the citizens of the United Kingdom and the citizens of the British Commonwealth. My belief is that, it is right and proper that Australia should have a Monarch, for the reason it has inherited this from British Anglo-Saxon traditions and Anglo Saxon culture is still very much part of modern Australia. Also, in the context that modern Australia is very much in Asia both geography and culturally, having a Monarch as head of state, fits very well with Asian traditions, for example in both Thailand and Japan, the Monarchy is a hugely respected institution. From a moral perspective, to take an example how a Monarchy can be a force for good, in the case of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, I believe that Mr Sugihara's decision to assist the Jewish refugees, was in part based on the perception that, whilst helping the Jewish refugees might have very serious consequences for him up to and including his own death, he believed helping the refugees would be, what the Emperor of Japan would want him to do and therefor it was in part Mr Sugihara's loyalty to the Emperor, which was responsible for the rescue of, these Jewish refugees.
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Whilst it is by no means true that "monarchist = pro-Nazi, anti-Semite" because many monarchists across the world fought the Nazis, the fact was that Imperial Japan (and its Emperor presumably) sided with the Nazis and must share responsibility for the holocaust.
However, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany and their initial military successes was of course more the fault of European monarchists than Japanese monarchists.
I say "European monarchists" and not just German monarchists are at fault because the European royal families tended to intermarry with each other a fair bit.
Wikipedia: Prince Christoph of Hesse
Wikipedia: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Marriage
American Almanac: The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor
Aftermath News: The Nazi relative that the Royals disowned
The Daily Express: PRINCE PHILIP AND THE NAZIS
The Royals and the Reich. The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Petropoulos
Jonathan Petropoulos, in his book "Royals and the Reich" reviews the case that the Duke of Windsor was a traitor and an agent for Nazi Germany which was made by Martin Allen in his book "Hidden Agenda. How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies".
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Author Martin Allen goes much further than this, arguing in his controversial book, Hidden Agenda, that the duke spied for Hitler, especially in the critical phase in late-1939 and early-1940 prior to the Battle of France.
According to Allen, the duke made inspection tours of the French army's front line positions, including the Maginot line, and provided reports of troop deployments not only to the British (French-British co-operation not being what it should have been), but also to the Germans.
The link between the duke and the Nazis, according to Allen, was wealthy American industrialist Charles Bedaux (sometimes spelled Bedault), who was a close friend of the Windsors. Bedaux had loaned them his home, chateau Cande in France, for their wedding in June 1937, and he was almost certainly a Nazi intelligence asset; he knew Goring personally and had many German business contacts.
Martin Allen goes so far as to argue that the Duke of Windsor provided Bedaux with the crucial information about the French deployment, that this information, when passed on, induced Hitler to take the bold move and invade France through the poorly defended Ardennes forest, and that this is the primary explanation for the stunning Nazi victory in May-June 1940.
It is a devastating indictment: the Duke of Windsor was not only a traitor but the main reason for the German victory in the West and all that came with it (occupation, the Battle of Britain, and the persecution of Jews in these regions, among other developments).
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