And why was the the co-operation between the Allied so bad ( perhaps? ) in 1939-40...
From Julian Jacksonīs : The Fall of France (2003 )
" French politicians were even more ignorant of Britain than the British of them. The image of "Perfidious Albion" ran deep. When Chamberlain visited Rome in January 1939, Daladier confided his opinion to the American Ambassador, William Bullitt, who passed it on to Roosevelt:
He ( Daladier) fully expected to be betrayed by the British and added that this was the customary fate of the allies of the British. Daladier went on to say that he considered Neville Chamberlain a desiccated stick; the King a moron; and the Queen an excessively ambitious woman who would be ready to sacrifice every other country in the world in order that she might remain Queen of England.He added that he considered Eden a young idiot and di not know a single Englishman for whose intellectual equipment and character he had respect. He felt that England had become so feeble and senile."
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The British regarded French politics as Byzantine, French politicians as frivolous, and the country as decadent.
