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Thank you

You catch a lot of crap around here, so I thought I'd drop you a little note to know that all the good work you do on Misplaced Pages is much appreciated. Everywhere I look I see your excellent contribs. Keep up the good work, and warmest regards --Neutrality 05:02, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to second that :) →Raul654 05:35, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thirded. Your contributions're actually part of what had me give Misplaced Pages a half-serious go; you went hiatus right after I'd registered an account, I think. Glad to see you back. Shem 12:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The only figure I can remember seeing for any of the legislative races was for the Bangui race in which the pro-Bozize candidate beat the assembly speaker Tiangaye with a lead that I think was 50.1%, very slight. I'm still working on the election article, though, so if I come across any numbers I'll let you know. Everyking 03:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Australian anti-terrorism legislation, 2004

Adam, could you please look over this article and update some of it? The article mentions Ruddick's bill being discussed in committee in July (presumably last year), and has no mention of an update on the laws. I don't really have much knowledge about the anti-terror laws, but know that some ASIO powers are being reviewed currently with their sunset clauses closing in . Thanks. Harro5 05:47, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

FDR

Well, the true history is being rewritten in light of the VENONA_project#Significance, and its relvence regarding History_of_Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States#CPUSA which CPUSA#Soviet_funding_of_the_Party_and_espionage was made possible after FDR's granting of diplomatic recognition. You can see the revisionism at work already right here , where the two statements

"Browder embraced the popular front tactic and led the CPUSA's enthusiastic support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt." and

"The Communist Party reconstituted itself as the Communist Political Association and entered the Democratic Party as a left wing faction."

have been deleted from the articles. So the issue didn't begin in 1948 with Whittaker Chambers revelations or the Alger Hiss trial, it began with FDR's administration. Maybe you wanna see War Production Board or Board of Economic Warfare, which, in all fairness, I don't think can be called a New Deal agency. Right now, the 1930's penetration of the OGPU into the Roosevelt Administration comes first, before wartime. It will go in somewhere. I will be glad to work with you for a NPOV result. Thanks. Nobs01 03:20, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The significance of Venona material is huge regarding American history from 1932 onwards. Let me digress momentarily to express personal views. My interest in this is only regarding FDR's foreign policy. New Deal politics & Keynsianism I'll leave to another day (or another year which may never come). At one time decades ago I was among FDR critics vis-a-vis what the post-Yalta world wrought. But having been a student now for 37 years, truthfully there are very few decisions FDR made in the conduct of the war and foreign policy that were not the right decision (perhaps "best" decision is more appropriate). FDR has become a man I admire very much for his world vision and persistence in that vision. So I in no way wish to denigrate the man's character or motives, etc. However, within the FDR bio there is a need for at least two insertions. (1) FDR was guilty of at a minimum a policy of benign neglect regarding the illegal infiltation of persons in the service of a foreign government into his administrtion (to whom the origins of the Cold War can be attributed). These persons were in violation of the Hatch Act. This espionage ring of over 400 persons within his administration did not exist within the government prior to 1932. So I propose some reference in the decade of the 1930's to FDR's willingness, most likely blindly, for this to occur. (simply because it was not a newspaper press scandal like Watergate or Iran-Contra at the time does not mean (a) it didn't occur or (b) the man at the top doesnt bare some responsibility). On can read the historical sources known for years about Undersecretary Berle bringing this matter to his attention in 1941 and FDR's unconcern over the matter; it is my POV that inserting it here is just a rehash of partisan anti-FDR rhetoric, that's why I sought inserting it at some earlier, more contermporaneous point, like where it began in 1933, or why the Dies Committee was created in the first place, to investigate Hatch Act violations. The second insertion (2) should be post-Yalta, to essentially clarify that FDR's own Four Freedoms had been subverted by some of his own trusted subordintates, who betrayed not just the United States, but FDR's own foreign policy programs. It is my view , that the Yalta conference article goes to far trashing FDR, cause in a real sense he himself was a victim. The enslavement of 350 million Eastern Europeans as articulated in Western betrayal article is valid, but it was definitely not FDR's objective. He himself was betrayed by those whom he trusted. I am seeking some balance and fairness for a NPOV FDR bio, and hope to work with you so this can be achieved. Thank you. Nobs01 18:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

murrayriver2.gif

hallo adam ! i am from the german wikipedia.... i want to now, where you found the map generator for create the map from murrayriver.... i need a map generator for other maps for some artikels. can you give me the weblink ? my e-mail = leoncius@web.de

Molotov

"Probably" is a difficult thing when you are dealing with facts...if Stalin was not behind it, then it was not probably true, it was entirely false. So the question of assigning probabilities to such a thing is to me excessive and also introduces some POV. Also I think it's excessive to say Molotov was carrying out Stalin's orders. I am sure in the general sense that's true; but you wouldn't read in Condi Rice's article that in foreign policy she is just carrying out Bush's orders. On the third point I thought it was another question of probabilities and speculation, but I'll concede that one, there is no doubt his position was weakened, but I do think it is stretching things too far to say that he was about to be purged entirely, although we could perhaps cite a historian who suggests the possibility. Everyking 11:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

again!

Here we go again. Another constitutionally illiterate user is pushing the 'governor-general is head of state' claims, this time at Monarchy in Canada. Misplaced Pages is a great source (sometimes!) but it does run into problems in areas where people need basic competence in things like constitutional law. It shouldn't be too hard to grasp that a constitutional monarchy is a state where the head of state is a monarch, but some people just can't get their head around such elementary rules in constitutional law. FearÉIREANNFile:Ireland flag large.png\ 21:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)