They reflect the times. This is 1941. Europe is sliding very quickly into war, France is about to be occupied by Germany, and it was a time of enormous anxiety, tension, fear.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

England and France are blocking it but they follow the flawed soccer model.

I was France.

In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.