_ On the way home in traffic after dinner we turned on a CD playing speeches that Churchill made. We soon forgot about the traffic as we listened to what he had to say to the British people in the midst of the Dunkirk disaster. It’s almost unbelievable, though, that so great a statesman — at least in retrospect — has such inadequate information about the French troop movements in Northern France. They were not doing what he was saying. But then he could have been lying to them, too. He went to France on May 16 and saw how defeatist the French were. He spared the British people because he didn’t think they were ready to hear such horrible things.