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I am able to take a very detached view about the outbreak of the Polish war, because I spent the whole summer of 1939 in Savoy, and only returned to England the day after the war started. Thus I am little influenced by contemporary impressions. My own impression in Savoy was quite simple — it was enshrined in a simple judgement: ‘These people won’t fight’. Although it looked as if I was wrong when the war broke out, it turned out soon that I was quite right.
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Taylor, A.J.P. (1983). The British View. In: Douglas, R. (eds) 1939. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06442-7_4
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