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In these dark days, the Prime Minister would be grateful if all his colleagues in the government,

as well as important officials, would maintain a high moirle in their circles,

not minimizing the gravity of events, but showing confidence in our ability and inflexible resolve to continue the war till we have broken the will of the enemy to bring all Europe under its domination.

No tolerance should be given to the idea that France will make a separate peace.

But whatever may happen on the continent, we cannot doubt our duty.

And we shall certainly use all our power to defend the island, the empire and our cause.

That was, of course, a strictly confidential memo written by Winston Churchill on the

morning of Tuesday, the 28th of May, because we've put Black Monday behind us,

haven't we, Jim?

Well, not entirely.

Because there's a further War Cabinet meeting on Monday the 27th of May at 10pm.

Yeah.

But it's called to discuss yet another crisis.

And this, of course, is the Belgians surrendering.

Welcome to We Have Ways of Making a Talk, where the Belgians have just surrendered.

It's episode four of our five days in May, trying to zoom in as close as we can get,

the decisions being made at this absolutely titanic five days in May, trying to zoom in as close as we can get, the decisions being made at this

absolutely titanic five days, working week in British history, a world history. And as we said in

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