Tensions Rising in the United Kingdom (4 févr. 1939 – 10 févr. 1939)

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The reactions to the war back home in the UK had been taken with an unenthusiastic response...

The country's leadership was hardly enthusiastic about the conflict and began to rethink their choices because of the dire circumstances that the Allied powers now faced in France.

King Edward only made things worse by constantly encouraging the idea of peace with the German Reich and purposely being disruptive towards the war effort.
He claims he does not want to see any more British lives lost and have the empire sacrificed in the name of the French.

Even the Prime Minister had faced a vast moral dilemma too, Edward Wood (1st Earl of Halifax) favoured peace with Germany but he equally recognised that if any peace with Germany would happen then the Germans must successfully defeat the entire Allied army group that have been encircled in the Calais-Dunkirk pocket in Flanders and northern France.

Many British that wish to continue the war disliked the thought of surrendering to a foreign superpower because this would be an acceptance that hundreds of years of British strategic thinking would be abandoned and allow a sole nation to control the fate of the entirety of continental Europe.
The War Minister Winston Churchill by contrast shared no doubts - he was fully determined to see through the conflict and accept no peace from, by or for the Germans. He kept naming that the crisis in Dunkirk was nothing more but just merely a step in the road towards victory.

This would start a rivalry between Churchill and Halifax which would soon flourish.

During these tensions on the home front, the Belgium began collapsing by the second on the 9th of February as the German generals; Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian had led their forces into cutting off an estimated one million men from the rest of the Allied forces that were stationed in France.

It became more problematic that the Allies are experiencing defeat on every front.

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