Went to the theatre last night (Trafalgar Studios) to see a play called 3 Days in May with Warren Clark playing Churchill.
Play was about 3 days in May 1940 just before Dunkirk or rather as Dunkirk was starting and as the French gave up (nothing new there) and sucked up to their new German masters.
It is a story of what may have been said in the cabinet war rooms between the heads of the coalition government and how Churchill forced his way into Britain carrying on with the war. The one comment that made me smile was about us making an agreement with the Germans, French and Italians and Chamberlain stated “I wouldn’t trust any of them, they jsut want to take us over” seems a familiar story now.
Yet on that note I have decided to do my bit for Greece and the Greek economy on account that I am half Greek. What have I done?
I have ordered a new car, how does this help Greece? I have ordered another Audi , so by helping the German economy it allows them to continue to bail out Greece. 🙂
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Very shrewd decision, RR. As for Chamberlain, I have always felt some sympathy for him. He was vilified for appeasing Hitler, but he may have been right. If you have not done so, read my post: ‘A War Monkey Called Sue! (Further adventures on the Internet.)’ I quote Pat Buchanan who praised Lord Salisbury for his approach which basically meant appeasing Germany, Russia and …. America. Had the Liberal Party under the likes of Asquith and Grey not been so determined to give the Bosch a snotty nose, WW1 would have been a brief squirmish while WW2 would never have taken place and Britain would still be a major force in the world, with the Empire largely intact. Well, that is my slightly inebriated take on things!
I must say Sipu I don’t know enough about this historical period, maybe I should but it never really inspired me.
Rick, I agree, it’s far too recent for me. I don’t know much about it either. As far as history is concerned I am stuck in the seventeenth century.
With the luxury of hindsight, it is easy to paint Chamberlain as the villain. I agree that it may be about time that he had a rather more sympathetic hearing.
I think Chamberlain was an appeaser from necessity. Because of a huge range of defence cuts and lack of and poorly directed investment in new hardware by his and previous governments, the armed forces were at a very low point. Does this ring any bells today?
At least his appeasement gave Britain a bit of a breathing space to develop the Hurricane and Spitfire and so on.
I remember haring a very interesting debate between historians, who did seem to know what they were talking about, to the effect that the European countries involved in the assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo did not expect Britain to get involved. And if they had realised that Britain would become involved they would not have taken the positions that they did. They argued, fairly convincingly for me, that the ‘local’ incident at Sarajevo need not have escalated into World-wide conflict.
Unfortunately, I’ve never taken the time to follow up that discussion, but it left me wondering how much truth there was in those historians arguments.