Discussing De Gaulle's veto of Britain's entry into a united Europe, Neville quotes a British Foreign Office memorandum of 1 May 1920, only recently revealed in a British newspaper after 43 years secret, predicting the French would never truly like the English. He notes it was written soon after the First World War had emptied England's universities of a generation, and observes that when the Second World War came, France collapsed after only about four weeks while England alone held the line until America entered -- without which, he argues, all of Europe would have fallen under Hitler.