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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello, everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 214, The Battle

Before Britain Part 6, an easy way out.

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history of this second world war.com slash members to find out more. When Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940, while the situation in France did not seem

to be going in a positive direction, it would soon be getting much worse.

As discussed during the invasion of France episodes, French resistance began to fall apart

in June, but even before that time, there were already discussions happening

among some members of the British government about the possibility of seeking an early exit

to the war. These discussions primarily revolves around working with Mussolini and the Italian

government to arrange for discussions to take place between Britain, France, and Germany. Looking

back from today, and with knowledge of the outcome of the war,

the decision of the British government to continue fighting seems like the right move.

But at the time, when Churchill and Halifax were working to make their decisions,

it was far from a sure thing that Britain would come out of the other side of the war

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