MANY FACTORS
WHY FRANCE COLLAPSED. Summarising the reasons for the collapse of France in his new book, “Strictly Personal,” Mr Somerset Maugham writes:—The General Staff was incompetent; the officers were vain, ill-instructed in modern warfare and insufficiently determined; the men were dissatisfied and half- hearted. The people at large were kept ignorant of everything that they should have been informed of; they were profoundly suspicious of the Government, and were never convinced that the war was a matter that urgently concerned them; the propertied classes were more afraid of Bolshevism than of German domination; their first' thought was how to keep their money safely in their pockets; the Government was inept, corrupt, and, in part, disloyal. Is it a miracle that France was defeated? It would be a miracle if she had not been.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 7
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