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Uncle Bill, a good man.

It was always the Welsh, Scots, Irish and Northern English that did all the fighting and dying, while the upper classes hid at home f8nally taking the jobs that the poor did at home to ensure their safety. Oh there were a few brave souls who fought but too many worked in safer jobs. God helped those who helped themselves, but too many hid under their working class disguise. My Grandfather and father in law fought In the first War, the Indian war needlessly. twenty men of higher class came to the mines of Scotland. My Grandfather listed their names and one roared :":my name is Todd, T.O. D.D. two D's, He replied to him "One :":D:": is good enough for God. swine tried to have him fired even though he fought with gallantry 8n the First war, upper class git'

A truly great man He saved Britain and Malta The greatest British commander this country had in WW2

Very interesting I’m sure. But what had it got to do with Radio London? Being an avid listener for its life, I can assure you that no one listened to the religious programme at 7pm. To be honest I only vaguely remember it. You need to rd name this video it’s precious little to do with Radio London.

So, our beloved pirate radios were sacrificed to the Common Market? That wouldn't surprise me. I well remember that duplicitous creep Anthony Wedgewood Benn, spouting all that eyewash in order to ban them. Later, in a different cabinet position, he created the UKAEAC or the "Nuclear Police", a special constabulary that was so secret it couldn't even be scrutinised by Parliament. Later still he tried to reinvent himself as a paragon of civil liberties. Socialists - never to be trusted...

As the author of two books which in large part focus on the British War Cabinet debates from March 26-March 28,1940, (NO PEACE WITH HITLER and THE ANTAGONISTS WHO SAVED DEMOCRACY which will be published on March 31,2025) I was extremely pleased when I came across 72 Hours: Churchill’s Cabinet Crisis (Part Two) However, my excitement soon changed to disappointment because the ambitious 25 minute presentation painted with too broad a brush, ignored some important points, spent too much time on others (e.g. Italy’s posture on European equilibrium) and was just wrong about several things. The latter includes the following assertions: 1. During the debate Chamberlain said an outright refusal “to Italy” might be unfavorable to British efforts to keep France fighting. a. Chamberlain made the statement at the War Cabinet meeting on May 27th at 4:30 that Britian’s response to France’s request that it and Britian jointly ask “Mussolini to mediated the dispute [with Germany] should not be a complete refusal.” 2. Halifax and Chamberlain controlled the majority support among Conservative MPs. a. That power was Chamberlain’s and Chamberlain’s alone. 3. It was not until the War Cabinet meeting at 2 PM on May 28 that Chamberlain indicated he supported Churchill’s no-peace-talks position. a. Chamberlain unequivocally indicated that he supported Churchill’s position on the 26th, reiterated it on the 27th and in fact had agreed with Churchill ever since the Germans invaded Poland that Britain must fight to the finish For more interesting reading about what took place during these very important War Cabinet debates, I suggest that you read John Lukac’s FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940 and Anthony McCarten’s DARKEST HOUR and watch the extremely entertaining movie made from that book. For both an interesting and more historically accurate reading on the subject I would immodestly commend NO PEACE WITH HITLER to you. An even more exacting examination of the War Cabinet debate will be found in THE ANTAGONISTS WHO SAVED DEMOCRACY which will be available in early spring. Alan Saltman

As the author of two books which in large part focus on the British War Cabinet debates from March 26-March 28,1940, (NO PEACE WITH HITLER and THE ANTAGONISTS WHO SAVED DEMOCRACY which will be published on March 31,2025) I was extremely pleased when I came across 72 Hours: Churchill’s Cabinet Crisis (Part Two) However, my excitement soon changed to disappointment because the ambitious 25 minute presentation painted with too broad a brush, ignored some important points, spent too much time on others (e.g. Italy’s posture on European equilibrium) and was just wrong about several things. The latter includes the following assertions: 1. During the debate Chamberlain said an outright refusal “to Italy” might be unfavorable to British efforts to keep France fighting. a. Chamberlain made the statement at the War Cabinet meeting on May 27th at 4:30 that Britian’s response to France’s request that it and Britian jointly ask “Mussolini to mediated the dispute [with Germany] should not be a complete refusal.” 2. Halifax and Chamberlain controlled the majority support among Conservative MPs. a. That power was Chamberlain’s and Chamberlain’s alone. 3. It was not until the War Cabinet meeting at 2 PM on May 28 that Chamberlain indicated he supported Churchill’s no-peace-talks position. a. Chamberlain unequivocally indicated that he supported Churchill’s position on the 26th, reiterated it on the 27th and in fact had agreed with Churchill ever since the Germans invaded Poland that Britain must fight to the finish For more interesting reading about what took place during these very important War Cabinet debates, I suggest that you read John Lukac’s FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940 and Anthony McCarten’s DARKEST HOUR and watch the extremely entertaining movie made from that book. For both an interesting and more historically accurate reading on the subject I would immodestly commend NO PEACE WITH HITLER to you. An even more exacting examination of the War Cabinet debate will be found in THE ANTAGONISTS WHO SAVED DEMOCRACY which will be available in early spring. Alan Saltman

Briton today is led by people who hate Jews and British culture. We are so unworthy of past generations...

Radio Luxembourg were inadvertently gifted some of the best studio equipment when the Nazis left at the end of the war. It was a shame that the International Broadcasting Company's offices were lost to bombing during the blitz, as they might've been able to have kept making dents in the BBC's audience as they did along with Radio Luxembourg before the war, when the Beeb was seen as dull & stuffy. You should hear the way a continuity announcer might introduce an entertainment programme, very snappy and sound offended they were broadcasting a dreadful popular music programme.

The BBC had decided to have the newsreaders give their names, so making it a little more difficult for the Nazis to imitate.

Great Video! My Dad Was There & I Have Much Admiration For Wartime England. Thank You. (Like #519)

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Thank you for an enlightening perspective, especially British data security failures that gave Imperial Japan more accurate intelligence and confidence to invade Malaya. Admittedly, the surrender of Singapore was a British inspired disaster in more ways than covered by this video contents. They date back to the waning of Pax Britannica as a global empire since the dawn of the 20th century. That Britain had to enter into an alliance with Japan from 1902-1923, to help defend its interests east of Suez, and later switching from Japan to the US as ally after 1923, was already proof that it could no longer defend its global empire interests on its own. For the period between the two world wars (1919-1939), successive British governments prioritized to restoring fiscal health and improving the economic welfare of their electorate (over defence) in order to get and stay in political power. This contributed to British military decline that accelerated after WWI. (See smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/british-military-decline-1919-1939). The Far East (including Hong Kong and Singapore) was long considered as a backwater in British military terms. This meant that the Far East had long been accorded lower priority in allocation of imperial defence resources, both in quality and quantity. Churchill did play an active role in cutting back Royal Navy budget when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1920s and depriving Malaya of adequate defences despite appeals from his top military commanders in Whitehall and in the Far East. Even without the Patrick Heenan's betrayal and capture of top secret documents on SS Automedon, it wouldn't change the overall outcome with an aggressive imperial Japan seeking territorial expansion. Of course, the reasons that led to the surrender of Singapore extend beyond the above coverage. They included, though not exclusively, the accuracy of Japanese intelligence of British doctrine, fixed defences in Malaya, terrain and weather.

Trafford Leigh-Mallory was the epitome of what was wrong with British Leadership in ww2. (Maj. Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold was what was the epitome of what was wrong with American Leadership) Both men relied on the tried and true method of lying to the public, which could mean that the complicit media was the actual problem.

My great uncle, CPL James Reynolds was killed on 26 Jun 1918 during the Battle of Belleau Wood, he was with the 82nd Co, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines.

A great man. Perhaps I've been mistaken in considering Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham as the Royal Navy's greatest fighting admiral/commander. In any event, two legendary men. I'm grateful they were on our side. Cheers from America.

Hedgehogs are NOT depth charges! Depth charges are set to explode at a set (guesstimated) depth. Hedgehogs explode only on contact. A depth charge contains 600lb of explosive. Each individual hedgehog bomb contained 24lb of explosive. Hedgehog mortars are arranged in a group of 24 or 36, making a total of 576lb or 864lb of explosive. They were arranged in rows of 4, the rows being set off with a slight delay to avoid recoil problems. The mortars were arranged so that the bombs landed in an elliptical pattern over an area. It took 80 depth charges to kill a submarine. It took 5 hedgehog firings.

The only HMS Exeter in WW2 was a heavy cruiser, NOT a destroyer. She, with the light cruisers Ajax and Achilles, battled the pocket battleship Graf Spey. the battleship was ultimately scuttled in the River Plate. Exeter took a year to repair.

Very good….except for pronunciation of Rennes!

Mrs Walker should of received an O.B.E . The decent thing to do would be posthumously Knight Sir Walker. Mrs Sir John Walker would of continued to been an asset to the knighthood and Britain and her people. Just as she obviously was for her husband and family.. My respect admiration and appreciation goes out to Captain and Mrs John Walker R.N .

Admiral Horton was a submarine commander in the First World War. Stationed in Russia, They began calling the Baltic Horton's Sea.

Slim realised although tenacious and mean the Japanese army wasn't that good 😊👍

There seems to be a few discrepancies. The IBA didn't appear until the preparation for commercial radio began in the early '70s. The organisation was originally called the ITA. 1966 saw the appearance of Swinging Radio England, and not England Radio. It did however, share a ship with Britain Radio. Much of the other inferences, seemed a little iffy. Nothing was said about Kenny Everett being suspended by the Big L, after he made on air jokes, and other comments, about the World Tomorrow, including Garner Ted Armstrong.

Yes a cabinet of Labour and Liberal ministers.

Unfortunately only just discovered he was a predator

The Bjg L was my goto radio station.

Bader was part of the Mallory stitch up that got him sacked. Mark of his hypocrisy that he would phrase Park in death.

England stood alone in 1938. Yes, 1938. No Empire unity for war. The USA, the so-called hidden reserves, was isolationist - Roosevelt, like England, stood alone. Of course the Welsh, the Scots and Irish were there, but the Irish people generally werent. So one man with an umbrella was vital if England was ever to achieve something better than unreliable France. What a hero to many that man must be! Best foot forward, guarantee Poland. Heroic indeed! Yet only Ironside called him wonderful. My chief has a will of steel, Churchill growled - yet all this is forgotten today, as if it is simply too good to be true, a competent British government just when the US needed one.

Excellent

Excellent

Germans they worshipped a useless corporal with a bad temper.

A wonderfull documentary, clear and accurate English, the likes of this should be played in schools history lessons.

The Cabinet got it all right in 1938-39-40, by discussion. The only difference in 1940 was the relevance of the RAF, the question of whether the RAF could protect the ports and factories, the RAF reply gave the Cabinet the option to continue the war. Chamberlain recorded Churchills readiness to end the war if it could be cheaply bought, possibly as another act of denying Churchill a clear field to claim all credit for good results.

What Douglas Home told Keith Feiling and also published himself absolutely made clear that the publicity given to the Anglo-German declaration by Chamberlain cannot represent the word appeasement, rather represents what was said in Cabinet and advised on paper by MI6. Your presentation emphasis is on Cabinet discussion yet shows the document as representing appeasement. You were unaware of what Douglas Home said, and you were indoctrinated with the idea that Chamberlain was blind to the dangers, not least that Hitler had a habit of disregarding German signed documents and surprising the world. The publicity concerned that danger.

Well presented with good analysis. I have read through the cabinet papers for this period on the national archive website and I have to say this 2 part series made droll meeting minutes into a flowing story. New subscriber here.

The image used of where Brigadier Claude Nicholson died. Clearly looks like Colditz Castle. When he was never a prisoner of war at that location. He died at Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany. Colditz Castle (or Schloss Colditz in German) is in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. Two different places in totally different parts of German. Rotenburg a.d. Fulda) is a town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, in central Germany, situated, as the name says, on the river Fulda.

The photo at 7:41 has got me stumped, looks like a oddball variant of JgPz IV with two step front plate, whatever it is its not 1940 period.

As I just posted in Part 1 , really appreciate that " Great Stories " has explained the British War Cabinet Crisis in context of the Battle of France , Italy , Belgium and other events . - and the Americans were maintaining their position of Isolationism - and at the time , the Soviets had a non aggression pact with Hitler ( Which turned out to be worthless ) . - 18:05 When Paul Reynaud came to office , one of his first acts was to negotiate and agreement with Chamberlain that neither France or Britain would negotiate terms with Hitler without mutual consent. - Also in context , the Kriegsmarine had been devastated during the Norwegian campaign , and its infamous battle ships were not in use at this time . Where as the Royal Navy's home fleet had 5 capital ships and was totally dominant .

Gordon Welshmen at Bletchly Park came up with the idea of " Traffic Analysis . " - In Hut 6 , they had a chart showing the hierarchy of the German Generals - Using triangulation of radio transmissions , they knew in Hut 6 where each enigma machine was - from the call sign and "touch" of each morse code operator , they knew which German General was transmitting , how often and the length of each message Recall the famous photo of Heinz Guadarian in the communication truck . - So during the Battle of France , the British War Cabinet and Lord Gort would have know exactly where Heinz Guadarian was , even though they weren't breaking the enigma code . .

Great Stories - really appreciate you explaining the British War Cabinet Crisis in the context of the Battle of France . - I've never understood why this defining moment of the 20th Century is over looked by historians . - I think you are the only historian who has pointed out that while the Wehrmach Generals and Hitler were having their arguments , almost at the same time , the British War Cabinet were having their arguments. Same thing happened during the Battle of Britain . - Its absolutely staggering the shear number of decisions Paul Reynaud , BEF Generals and the British War Cabinet had to make under extreme pressure . They were discussing the fate of entire countries and preserving Liberal Democracy in Europe. .

Very enjoyable and informative. The historian James Holland has stated that if he was able to travel back in time to any historical moment he would have chosen to be a fly on the wall during these momentous seventy-two hours. One small criticism, Sir Alexander Cadogan was the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office and not a secretary of state.

I normally don't like "what ifs", but it's an interesting thought what could have happened with Lord Halifax as prime minister.Much can be said a bout Churchill, but at least he was a fighter....

Strong words against oppression and tyranny that are just as relevant today. Stay vigilant👍👍👍

This is a great documentary. Thank you.

I've really enjoyed these two posts, thank you.

Excellent. Look foreward to the next one.....

This video has confirmed something I read/heard some years ago that the Halt Order came down to a game of chicken between Hitler and his generals. Hitler wanted the glory for the destruction of the BEF for himself and not to be shared with others. Had he allowed the generals the success and had been seen to defer to them they might have had greater authority and many of the mistakes later in the war might have been averted.

14:23 Clarification on the decision to Evacuate the BEF - morning of May 25th , 1940 , French General Blanchard promises Lord Gord he will provide 3 divisions and 200 tanks to help implement the Wegand Plan . - But at 1730 hours , Lord Gord is informed that the French will only provide 1 division . * - " Ultra " Using triangulation of radio transmissions from enigma machines , Bletchly Park knows where each enigma machine is. They also knew which Enigma machine each German general was using , and how often they were sending a message ** - So Lord Gord knew Blanchard had mislead him and from "Ultra" he also knew the BEF were in a hopeless position . - As such , on the 25th at 1800 hours , Lord Gord made the decision to evacuate the BEF . * Dunkirk : Retreat to Victory , Major General Julian Thompson , Page 143 ** Gordon Welshman's only interview .

so churchill did leave the french out on a limb then

Great Stories - Thank you for presenting this . May 26th - 28th - The British War Cabinet Crisis - in a nut shell . ( Churchill , Lord Halifax , Chamberlain , Attlee and Greenwood ) The initial estimate given to the British war cabinet was that only 45,000 solders of the BEF could be evacuated . - Lord Halifax was invited by the Italian ambassador , who offers to mediate a peace agreement . - Lord Halifax then attempted to get the British war cabinet to agree to enter into negotiations to explore what was on offer . - Churchill disagreed and said Hitler hasn't honoured any terms he has agreed to , and will turn Britain into a slave state. - Halifax says they could loose 200,000 men and the Luftwaffe would bomb Britain into submission . Some historians think Churchill was buying time too see how the evacuation was going . Churchill then does an end round on Halifax , meets with the 25 member outer cabinet , and pursuades them Britain should continue fighting . Had Churchill not been able to convince the cabinet to keep fighting , Hitler would have been able to unleash the entire Wehrmacht on the Soviets in the Spring of 1941 . Either way , Stalin or Hitler would have ended up ruling over Russia , the Middle East , North Africa and most of Continuemtal Europe . For this reason , the British War cabinet crisis is one of the defining moments of the 20th Century . .