Talk:May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis
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This reads like an essay, not an article. --Agamemnon2 13:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The importance of the war cabinet crisis
For all its faults, this article is correct in its conclusion that these events determined the outcome of WWII and thus the course of world history. With Britain's decision to fight on, come what may, a Nazi victory became impossible (with the possible exception that a Nazi nuclear weapon could subsequently have forced a British surrender). So long as Britain continued to fight, conflict between Nazi Germany and the USSR / USA was inevitable at some point, and Germany could not prevail against this combination. The debt owed by the world to Winston Churchill for his conviction, courage and leadership at this time is incalculable. WWII was won not on the beaches of Dunkirk, nor in the skies over southern England, nor at Stalingrad nor Pearl Harbour, but in these smoke-filled rooms during late May 1940.
