"If Russia surrenders, I doubt whether our resolution to hold out would endure for long," said Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, Labor M. P., in the House of Commons last week.
Shocked as they were by such plain and pessimistic speaking, millions of Britons nevertheless agreed that their Government's inaction was a national humiliation. Critics of the Government did not know whether an invasion of the Continent was possible or not. But they feared that Britain's leadership, even if it were able to, did not want to make such an invasion.
The names that stud the Churchill Cabinet—Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of...
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