The Invasion of Canada 1933 (alternate history) by Charles A. Mills

Author:Charles A. Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical fiction, political fiction, alternative history, alternative history fiction, alternate history e-books, alternate history books, alternate history military fiction
Publisher: Charles A. Mills
Published: 2014-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The problem with “Buster” Brown’s plan was that it had not actually been coordinated with the British. The Statute of Westminster (1931) had transformed Canada into a sovereign state, co-equal with Britain, and had transferred war-making powers to the Canadian Parliament. After 1931, Britain could not assume that Canada would follow her into war as it had during the Great War of 1914. Nor, for that matter, could the Canadians any longer assume that the British would fight to the death for Canada. At best, Britain and Canada were allies by dint of the United States having declared war on both countries. Little did the Canadians suspect that the British thought that defending Canada was impossible and did not plan to send a large army to Canada’s rescue. Royal Navy officers believed they could transport an army to Canada, but nonetheless the Government saw it as impossible to defend against the much larger United States, so did not plan to do so, as Canada’s annexation by the United States would not be fatal to Britain.

Even as the British prepared to sacrifice Canada, they were still left with the problem of how to keep the wolf from devouring the rest of the Empire. An invasion of the United States was unrealistic and a naval blockade would be too slow. The Royal Navy proposed to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, an attack on American shipping from bases in the West Indies and Bermuda. The Navy would also bombard coastal bases and make small amphibious assaults along the thousands of miles of undefended American coastline. Britain would make the Americans feel “the sting of war”.

One man wanted to make the Americans feel more than the “sting of war”. He wanted the Americans to feel, “the hard hand of war”. Winston Churchill had something more in mind than “sinking a few ships and shelling a few turnip patches” along the American coast. “What kind of a people do the Americans think we are?” asked Churchill in the House of Commons, “Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? We British have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” Churchill, however, had long been in political disgrace, exiled to the political wilderness, a lonely voice, and no friend to the pacifist Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald who had famously said, “We hear war called murder. It is not. It is suicide.” The Prime Minister was convinced that the Americans would come to their senses and “do the right thing”. “This unfortunate misunderstanding can be set right,” MacDonald earnestly proclaimed. Churchill quipped, “The Americans will always do the right thing... after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”

Churchill suggested to his growing number of political adherents that the popular ditty With My Eyes Wide Open, I’m Dreaming ought to be Ramsay MacDonald’s theme song.

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