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I'm John Batsuit, Charles Spicer. His book is filled with information that is critical

to understand these tragic years, 1933 to 1945 and then afterwards. We're still scarred

by the decisions made or not made by the men we're talking about and their adversaries

in Berlin and Moscow and France, all this, all of Europe and it comes back when Europe's

in a war and you see how you're in a fog. You don't know what the future is. Well, that

was the case here in May of 1940. When the British Expeditionary Force, the Belgian

Surrender, the British Expeditionary Force is now in full retreat. The French army have

not provided adequate coverage and the Germans have launched a savage and extremely effective

attack. Sometimes using the tanks they got from the Scoto-Army, it's definitely using

the artillery and they're overrunning France, Belgium very quickly. The Belgian Army surrenders

and the British army, the famous Dunkirk retreat. However, at this point, the Prime Minister

changed his hands from Chamberlain to not Halifax but to Churchill. We've not talked about

work, Winston Churchill, much at this point because this is the rest of the story. But

I want to take this moment, Charles, to characterize Churchill. He knew about Christie, Conwell

Evans and Tenet. Did he account for their information? Did he also endorse it?

Yes. It seems very clear that he received a lot of Christie's information in particular

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