"Another Norwegian campaign is due to open. ... It will be waged against the War Cabinet in the House of Commons. . . . Chamberlain will be under fire," wrote the London Daily Mail last week as the full gravity of the Norwegian debacle filtered through the blackout of official information. That Hitler had succeeded in snatching a neutral state from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know,...
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