It has to make one wonder what the pit in the average Brit’s stomach felt like at that moment knowing that Chamberlain’s “Peace in Our Time” didn’t work out as planned, for Great Britain, anyway.
The average Brit, Frenchman, and German stomachs, were all churning. The Germans had no public enthusiasm for this war as shown by the article contrasting this war with 1914. Too many fresh memories of the last war. Too many maimed fathers and dead older brothers.
They knew what they were getting into. The problem was for the French that they had a government that reflected their fears and worries. The Germans...not so much.
Here is a Kaltenborn broadcast on 8/27/39
http://www.otr.com/ra/news/1939-08-27%20Kaltenborn%20Hitler%27s%20Demands.mp3