You think I am exaggerating? Let me give you an example. To avoid insults that were intentional or not, UNEF decided that names for our new battlecruisers had to be inoffensive to anyone. So, the USA could not name a ship after battles, because ‘Midway’ would insult the Japanese, and ‘Yorktown’ would insult the British, and ‘Normandy’ would insult the Germans. Every battle has a loser and they don’t want to be reminded of their defeat. I think the USA made good choices for names, but not all the names were without controversy. The British and French got into a minor diplomatic dust-up when it
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