Abstract
On Sunday 22 September 1940, Churchill received a message from Roosevelt that the German invasion of Britain would begin at 3 p.m. that afternoon. Churchill, who had been living through such alarms every week since June, was sceptical. If the Germans did manage to land, he told his luncheon guests, ‘we shall show them no quarter’. It transpired that the message had been garbled. The country about to be invaded was not Britain, but French Indo-China, by the Japanese.1
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Renwick, R. (1996). ‘Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars’. In: Fighting with Allies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379824_5
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