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Britain placed herself in a state of war with Germany on 3 September 1939, but almost immediately the situation became confused by the official pronouncement of the Prime Minister on 4 September that she had no quarrel with the German people but only with the German Government.
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Sir John, Wheeler-Bennett, Munich: Prologue to Tragedy (London, 1948) PP- 429-33
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Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, American White Paper (London,1940)p. 127.
Sumner Welles, The Time for, Decision (New York, 1944) P. 77.
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Wheeler-Bennett, J., Nicholls, A. (1972). From the Phoney War to the Atlantic Charter. In: The Semblance of Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02240-3_2
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