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Morning, glory, and evening, grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. This is the Hillsdale Dialogue. That music

signifies the last broadcast hour of the week, which is always spent with either Dr. Larry Arne or one of his colleagues at Hillsdale Dialogue, that music signifies the last broadcast hour of the week, which is always spent

with either Dr. Larry Arne or one of his colleagues at Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale

found at Hillsdale.edu, we have been spending most of this year in and out of the first volume

of Winston Churchill's World War II memoirs, The Gathering Storm. And when last we spoke about this two weeks ago, Dr. Arne, Munich had happened.

And the disaster had befallen.

And now we are into the chapter entitled Munich Winter as the Czechs bowed to the inevitable.

And I find myself again and again discovering things.

I did not know.

I did not know that the polls acted dishonorably at that time.

Were you aware of that?

Yeah.

I've read this book and some others.

Yeah.

You know, it's a mess, right?

Britain and France are the powers that can resist Germany, and it would prove later that

the Soviet Union was such power too, but they soon, they're about to get into cahoots

with Germany for a while.

And so Britain and France really caused, enabled Hitler to take Czechoslovakia.

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