Didn't get as far as the courts, if I remember aright. I THINK it was Louis Bonnery who recommended the softly-softly approach. It wouldn't have mattered either way as they'd still have lost and the chances of getting anything out of the Petainiste dwarf currently occupying the Elysee (sp?) Palace (the only world leader who can run between Rob Burrow's legs) are nil. Incidentally I disagree with the concept of 'remnant Nazis' in relation to France, what we're dealing with is the old ultramontane anti-semetic far right who've been trying to run France since the departure of Napoleon - they'd consider the Nazis as squalid, common arrivistes!

In France yes, everywhere else poor management.

Presumably you've never heard of the Benes decrees, whereby all Germans and Hungarian citizens of Czechoslovakia were forceably deported and had their property confiscated, regardless of whether or not they had complied with the Nazi occupiers. This affected millions of people.

The millions of French citizens deported to Germany for work were not compensated either.

The confisaction of sporting assets kind of pales in comparison.

He's definitely a Gaullist rather than a Petainiste, but to be honest there wasn't a great deal of difference. Petain was an ultramontane anti-semite from an impoverished peasant background, whereas de Gaulle was an ultramontane anti-semite from an impoverished aristocratic background...

Oddly, Petain betrayed his own beliefs by marrying a divorcee, but the de Gaulles were so extreme that if they visited Petain, his wife had to go next door or they would not stay.

No, that sentence doesn't make any sense.
Could you please re-phrase it.

Regardless of how he puts it across the answer is no. FFS......if anyone here thinks the IRB are remotely interested in anything other than cherrypicking potential stars they need their bumps looking at. D-L has churned up a whole load of historical facts from 70 years ago........and while he has achieved his quota for the month, I am stunned by some of the posters on here who believe their is a conspiracy department in Harcourt Street Dublin that have only one task...to destroy League. FFS....Why would the IRB waste time and money on such a department when League itself is doing that quite nicely
Slow ticket sales for the opening games of the 4 nations.........I would suspect that if England were playing the All Blacks and Australia were up againts say Ireland in Union there wouldn't be ticket left by now. That's what's preventing League from growing......the attitude of both the governing bodies and the apathy of the fans.

even if it pales into comparison, many jews have been compensated for what they suffered.

RL suffered enormously from what happened, should be no different.

I think referring to Richard Lewis and Nigel Wood as "Remnant Nazis" is hardly fair.

Not just professional players - I know of several RU players who were told that they would not be picked for their teams if they ever turned out for the local amateur RL club.

Really
I have no doubt that the RFU had issues with the game of League for many years, as did WRFU and the other national unions. What I disagree with is the supposition that the current IRB have any interest in League....either as global business model or as a threat. I KNOW that players were subsedised in Union prior to professionalism......I was part of a team in the 80's that had ICI employees who had no idea where their offices were
Regardless of the tit-for tat posts on the NRL boards regarding made up TV figures etc.....the RUWC commands a global presence that international RL can only dream of. The IRB would be more concerned with the growth of other sports with a higher global profile, such as soccer, basketball, cricket, tennis etc.

As for the often mentioned media bias and the supposition that Union gets better coverage in the UK because of the public schoolboys employed in media...this is again wide of the mark. Newspapers are on their butts in the UK, TV is struggling and radio has been dead in the water for ages now........they will only cover what they think people will read and League doesn't even register in the press outside the M62.
If the IRB have done anything at all to counter the threat from league....I would say the growth of 7's would be it. That said, I doubt they even gave league a second thought when it came to organising that global circus.

Since professionalism in Union....one code has globally gone forward...the other continues to go the other way globally and this has nothing to do with Vichy France, Nazis or any covert/overt campaign from the IRB.

I repeat...why would the IRB sabotage something that is already scuttling itself?