"Gunluvver2" wrote in message
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According to my mother and aunts, one of my Grandfather's main topics at the
dinner table prior to WW2 was how all the scrap iron being sold to Japan would
be sent back to us in the form of bombs. Dec.7, 1941 proved him right.

Here in Australia our Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, was forever known as "Pig-Iron
Bob" for exactly that reason.

--
Jeff