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Vichy France

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The Gallest Argument Is a Key to It

French radio broadcasts during the period of the phony war are regarded as patronizing and predictable. He says so basically you go from Munich where there's this colossal outrage public outrage in France about what's happening in Munich we must do something about Hitler but then you do nothing. By the time it gets to may morale has just fallen to rock bottom because nothing's happened they're away from home it's all stultifying. The four war which comes with only war is a damp squib, he writes.

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