This failed prediction is best highlighted by quoting part of the speech given by Sir Winston Churchill in December 1941 to the Canadian parliament called "Preparation - Liberation - Assault"
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The French Government had at their own suggestion solemnly bound themselves with us not to make a separate peace. It was their duty and it was also their interest to go to North Africa, where they would have been at the head of the French Empire ....
But their generals misled them. When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet,
"In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken."
Some chicken; some neck.
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