27-06-2014, 07:07 AM
Fred, my own personal take on the Shingle Street story is that it was a major raid in the manner of the Dieppe raid - a sort of scoping exercise to see how an actual invasion might turn out. I've been there many times. Even today it's just a handful or two of tumble-down fishing cottages - no shops or stores. It's not easy to get to, down a long windy narrow country lane and because of its closeness to the heavily fortified Naval port of Felixstowe, it would've been deemed a sensitive area and therefore closed by the military.
I find the story about Barbarossa credible. As I said, that Italian gentleman's story was off the cuff and quite unexpected. He was remembering. Why would Eden react that way? Because the British trick worked. It was nip and tuck and all about the timing. Hitler was encouraged to eat the elephant first and then come back later to nibble the mouse. But as we know he couldn't digest the elephant, and even if he could by 1942/3, US forces were flooding into Britain following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - and the chance had gone.
The main deterrent to Hitler's invasion of Britain in 1941 was losing the Battle of Britain. This gave the UK air superiority and that seriously impacted on Operation Sea Lion - of which the airborne aspect was now seriously jeopardized.
I find the story about Barbarossa credible. As I said, that Italian gentleman's story was off the cuff and quite unexpected. He was remembering. Why would Eden react that way? Because the British trick worked. It was nip and tuck and all about the timing. Hitler was encouraged to eat the elephant first and then come back later to nibble the mouse. But as we know he couldn't digest the elephant, and even if he could by 1942/3, US forces were flooding into Britain following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - and the chance had gone.
The main deterrent to Hitler's invasion of Britain in 1941 was losing the Battle of Britain. This gave the UK air superiority and that seriously impacted on Operation Sea Lion - of which the airborne aspect was now seriously jeopardized.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14