Xx-xx-xx05France In Torment

to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Creative death and destruction in the long history of man. World War II. A drama preserved for all time through the medium of radio.

An era never to be forgotten. Tonight, France in torment. It was clear that at this critical moment in the war, it was the formation of a government which we didn't remember. You are listening to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of speaking to the British Empire in the world.

In just a few minutes he will no longer be head of the Empire and its dominions beyond the seas. Great Britain is in crisis. German armies are on the march in Europe. After seven months, the war has erupted into unimaginable fury, a recapitulation of what has taken place.

After Britain and France declared war against Germany on September 3, following the German invasion of Poland two days earlier. There was what historians called the Fony War. Unable to effectively aid the Poles, France and Great Britain watched as Germany and her ally Russia squeezed Poland into submission from the West and East. Russia then invaded Finland, and after

initial defeats, by overwhelming numerical force made the courageous Finnish nation capitulate. war on the western front was taking place. The Germans were making plans for the invasion of Scandinavia and the low countries. The British under Neville Chamberlain and France under Premier Dalavie were contentedly sitting back, unwilling to commit aggressive warfare. The German war

machine needed the iron ore from rich Swedish mines. In London, Winston Churchill warned against the neutrality of Norway in Sweden. He demanded the British Navy impede the German accesses to Norway's neutral ports, where German ships had free access to Norway's sea lanes. But the British government refused to bring the war to neutral Scandinavia. In early