At the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, after the Great War, David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Great Britain made a suggestion to Italy regarding how it could regain some of the commercial losses it suffered during the war. What did he suggest? ********* 06-29-04, 09:27 AM Fritzs To Export Pizzas ????
06-30-04, 05:36 PM DorianGreyed Yes, they had no bananas, Georgia. Good job!
06-30-04, 08:47 PM Georgia85 Big Grin t'anks!
07-01-04, 10:22 AM Rainmaker So was George just being spiteful or was he truly ignorant of the fact that Italy did not have a banana crop?
07-01-04, 10:36 AM DorianGreyed He was ignorant of the facts.
07-01-04, 02:53 PM FredPuli Not in Italy, you bananas Big Grin ! Really. David Lloyd George would have known that Italy owned modern Libya (from 1912 after a war with Turkey),Somalia and Eritrea (from the 1870s) at the time. He was not such a fool as to think that the Italian bananas were grown in Italy, on their mainland ! Somalia exports bananas; it is their main crop, together with sorghum.Eritrea was also an exporter of bananas; the industry is being revived at present. Libya can certainly grow bananas too and does still. At the time these countries, Italian possessions, would supply Italy. The British got theirs from the British colonies, the West Indies; I don't suppose British bananas were being grown in sunny Cornwall !
07-01-04, 08:39 PM DorianGreyed While I have never heard or read of British bananas, I have to bow to Fred and admit that I assumed, apparently like most of the sources I read, that George was ignorant of the facts. I meant no disrespect to a fine Welshman.
07-02-04, 07:47 PM FredPuli I whisper it.....his shade might overhear ... but .... he was not called George. He's called Lloyd George; that's his surname.Think of a double-barrelled name but without the hyphen. His Christian name, his given name, was David not Lloyd. The explanation is that his father's surname was George and his mother's maiden name Lloyd. However his father died when David was only very young and he was then brought up by her with great assistance from her brother; so it seems that both names were put together for his surname, making Lloyd George, to reflect this fact.
We haven't got around to growing our bananas on these islands yet . It's probably only a matter of time Smile. The climate is already making its way towards that of the Mediterranean; nobody fifty years ago would have expected an olive tree to grow, without special protection,in the open in a Newmarket garden but the young one here has thrived; so can Caribbean or East African levels be far off ?
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