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Tag Archives: Chamberlain
This week in the War, 6–12 May 1940: “Wake up! The Germans are coming…!”
On the morning of 10 May 1940, American journalist Claire Boothe Luce was asleep in her room on the top floor of the US embassy in Brussels when a maid shook her by the shoulder, urging her to wake up … Continue reading
Posted in Book, World War II
Tagged Chamberlain, Churchill, Clare Boothe Luce, New York World's Fair, Norway, Roosevelt
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This week in the War, 1–7 April 1940: Hitler has missed the bus
This week in the war, on Thursday 4 April, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave an optimistic speech to Conservative Party members, declaring that Hitler had ‘missed the bus.’ Following the collapse of Poland the previous year, Europe had settled … Continue reading
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Tagged Chamberlain, Churchill, Hitler, Phoney War, Plan Yellow, Soviet-Finnish war
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