Re: The wearing o' the orange

In article <frsb86$hs2$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Supposedly Russia is still technically at war with Germany from WWII.

Nope.  The major Allies and the two Germanies signed the peace treaty
in 1990, effective March 15, 1991, according to
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_With_Respect_to_Germany>,
aka "the Two Plus Four Agreement".  So, until then, technically World
War II was still going on.  Of course, as with many "long-continuing
wars", there was actually an act of surrender that ended it for all
practical purposes.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Peace_with_Japan>
(1951) says

    Burma, India and Yugoslavia were also invited, but did not
    participate.[2] Neither the Republic of China in Taiwan nor the
    People's Republic of China in Mainland China were invited because
    of the Chinese Civil War and the controversy over which government
    was legitimate, and as a consequence of U.S.-U.K. disagreement
    over the Chinese participation, neither North Korea nor South
    Korea were invited.[3]

    The 49 participating countries signed the treaty,[4] except
    Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Soviet Union, which denied the
    treaty.[5] Colombia, Indonesia and Luxembourg signed the treaty
    but did not ratify it.[citation needed] ...

    The Soviet Union refused to sign the Treaty of San Francisco. No
    separate peace treaty has been signed with Japan even after the
    Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. This has prevented the
    Russo-Japanese territorial disputes from being resolved.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage#Carthage_in_modern_times>
echoes new stories I saw at the time:

    In February of 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly
    Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, signed a symbolic treaty
    "officially" ending the conflict between their cities which had
    been supposedly extended by the lack of a peace treaty for more
    than 2100 years.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]