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This week in the War, 20–26 May 1940: Maxime Weygand–man of the hour

Posted on May 24, 2012 by secondbysecond

Monday 20 May 1940, General Maxime Weygand (who had been appointed French commander-in-chief the previous day)  met with General Gamelin, whom he was replacing, and with a government which was already beginning to panic. The seventy-three-year-old Weygand had (like de … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 6–12 May 1940: “Wake up! The Germans are coming…!”

Posted on May 10, 2012 by secondbysecond

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 →

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This week in the War, 1–7 April 1940: Hitler has missed the bus

Posted on April 2, 2012 by secondbysecond

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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