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		ta1243 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Panjandrum: The ‘giant firework’ built to break Hi... Churchill became PM in May 1940, 8 months after the UK declared war on Germany.

sorcerer-mar 8 months ago [–]

The interim period being known as "The Phoney War" for being... well... phoney.

A technical satisfaction of their obligations to Poland and no more.

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