![]() ![]() ![]() This was more a case of Churchill remaining courteous to Halifax by letting him speak his mind in Cabinet meetings, given Churchill's political imperative of keeping the Government united at the most perilous time in British history. Churchill rightly rejected the idea as a slippery slope that could sap morale and put England in position of negotiating with the Nazis from weakness-a terrible place to be when England still had the option of fighting it out. I think a better description would have been "The Peculiar Case of Edward Halifax." According to the text, Halifax, then the Foreign Secretary, suggested an approach to Mussolini to sound out the possibility of his mediating a European settlement with Hitler that would preserve British independence. The publisher describes this work as a "magisterial" account of "decisive" and "historical" debates within Churchill's War Cabinet in London in May 1940. ![]()
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