James Holland
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monarchy crisis when the king wanted to marry wallace simpson the divorcee catholic divorcee etc etc so you know his judgment has been brought into question you know he is the man who was he came up with the idea of the gallipoli campaign which was you know an ignominious failure blah blah blah so there are issues over him you know he is seen as a hothead and a man who doesn't have the kind of sound judgment of halifax so the jury is is very much out and i think it's again it's one of those things where you have to put yourself in the
monarchy crisis when the king wanted to marry wallace simpson the divorcee catholic divorcee etc etc so you know his judgment has been brought into question you know he is the man who was he came up with the idea of the gallipoli campaign which was you know an ignominious failure blah blah blah so there are issues over him you know he is seen as a hothead and a man who doesn't have the kind of sound judgment of halifax so the jury is is very much out and i think it's again it's one of those things where you have to put yourself in the
monarchy crisis when the king wanted to marry wallace simpson the divorcee catholic divorcee etc etc so you know his judgment has been brought into question you know he is the man who was he came up with the idea of the gallipoli campaign which was you know an ignominious failure blah blah blah so there are issues over him you know he is seen as a hothead and a man who doesn't have the kind of sound judgment of halifax so the jury is is very much out and i think it's again it's one of those things where you have to put yourself in the
You have to look at this through the prism of what people were thinking in May 1940.
You have to look at this through the prism of what people were thinking in May 1940. Yes, he was considered an Italian politician, but he is seen also as a loose cannon and by no means the right person in this hour of darkness.
You have to look at this through the prism of what people were thinking in May 1940. Yes, he was considered an Italian politician, but he is seen also as a loose cannon and by no means the right person in this hour of darkness.
You have to look at this through the prism of what people were thinking in May 1940. Yes, he was considered an Italian politician, but he is seen also as a loose cannon and by no means the right person in this hour of darkness.
Yes, he was considered a towering politician, but he is seen also as a loose cannon and by no means the right person in this hour of darkness.
And it is coincidental that the 10th of May 1940, when he takes over as prime minister, he becomes prime minister, not for an election, but by default of a new nationalist government. So no longer a conservative government, but a nationalist crowning
And it is coincidental that the 10th of May 1940, when he takes over as prime minister, he becomes prime minister, not for an election, but by default of a new nationalist government. So no longer a conservative government, but a nationalist crowning
And it is coincidental that the 10th of May 1940, when he takes over as prime minister, he becomes prime minister, not for an election, but by default of a new nationalist government. So no longer a conservative government, but a nationalist crowning
And it is coincidental that the 10th of May 1940, when he takes over as prime minister, he becomes prime minister, not for an election, but by default of a new nationalist government.
So no longer a conservative government, but a nationalist...
cross-party coalition government for the duration of the war, which includes members of the Liberal Party and also the Labour Party, as well as conservatives, that it is by no means certain that he's going to be able to deliver the goods.
cross-party coalition government for the duration of the war, which includes members of the Liberal Party and also the Labour Party, as well as conservatives, that it is by no means certain that he's going to be able to deliver the goods. And it is also coincidentally the same day that the Germans launched Case Yellow, Operation Yellow, the invasion of the low countries in France.
cross-party coalition government for the duration of the war, which includes members of the Liberal Party and also the Labour Party, as well as conservatives, that it is by no means certain that he's going to be able to deliver the goods. And it is also coincidentally the same day that the Germans launched Case Yellow, Operation Yellow, the invasion of the low countries in France.
cross-party coalition government for the duration of the war, which includes members of the Liberal Party and also the Labour Party, as well as conservatives, that it is by no means certain that he's going to be able to deliver the goods. And it is also coincidentally the same day that the Germans launched Case Yellow, Operation Yellow, the invasion of the low countries in France.
And it is also coincidentally the same day that the Germans launched Case Yellow, Operation Yellow, the invasion of the low countries in France.
So these are tumultuous events.
So these are tumultuous events.