Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: darragh%maths.tcd.ie@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Darragh Delaney) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: How many countries in WWII? Semantics! Keywords: Ethiopia, Vichy Message-ID: <12885@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Jan 90 05:11:22 GMT References: <11867@cbnews.ATT.COM> <12596@cbnews.ATT.COM> <12692@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 19 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Darragh Delaney In article <12692@cbnews.ATT.COM> wdr@wang.COM (William Ricker) writes: >I would count both the Free Frech *and* the Vichy as bellignerants; > Poland was a victim-state, but also had an active, if not armed, > gov't-in-exhile which was working with the British secret services. I think you might find that the polish government-in-exile was armed in the same vein as the Free French (and please note that they were considerable more legitimate than de Gaulle's 'government'), polish paratroopers were part of operation Market-Garden and landed with the british at Arnhem were they put up a very credible performance. hope this makes things clearer. ------- Darragh.