British uninspired by Foreign Secretary

23rd July 1940: The public take a poor view of Lord Halifax's radio address rebuffing Hitler's peace proposal

During his speech to the Reichstag on the 19th July, Hitler had made an ‘appeal to reason’ to Britain

The summer of 1940 is now remembered as a time when the British nation was united in defying Hitler. Churchill’s rhetoric in a series of speeches in parliament and on the radio had been instrumental in leading and moulding the public mood. The effect of …