[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, The Pursuit, 13-25 June
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[CougarGA7]

With the final capitulation of France, England now is alone in the fight against the Germans. Many do not like Britain's chances at this point. Though we will see the dogged determination of the British people, many do not feel that they will be able to hold out long against the German juggernaut. This letter from RAF Hurricane pilot Paul Mayhew resonates some of the doubts many Englishmen felt:

Now I suppose it's our turn and though my morale is now pretty good...I can't believe that there's much hope for us, at any rate in Europe. Against a ferocious and relentless attack, the Channel's not much of an obstacle and with the army presumably un-equipped, I don't give much for our chances. Personally I have only two hopes; first that Churchill is more reliable than Reynaud and that we will go on fighting if England is conquered, and secondly that Russia, in spite of our blunders, will now be sufficiently scared to stage a distraction in the East. In America I have little faith; I suppose in God's own time God's own country will fight. But a present their army is smaller than the Swiss, their Air Force is puny and rather "playboy," and I doubt whether we need their Navy.

Hastings, Max. Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945. p. 60.

[justiceseeker93]

I notice that in article # 5, the New York Slimes reporter Archambault seems to reveal himself to be a Nazi sympathizer by praising Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain, who ultimately became notorious as the head of the Vichy regime where he was a Nazi collaborator and war criminal.

The Slimes wrote in praise of Petain:

In Bordeaux during the day one met an official automobile in which rode a solitary man of dignified and sorrowful mien - Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain. All the hopes of a reconstructed France are based for the moment on the prestige and personality of this man, who has always kept aloof from party struggles and class warfare and now typifies everything that is best in the country.

Hmm, the New York Slimes: pro-Nazi then, anti-Israel now.