France in Twilight.

The article focuses on the book "France and Munich: Before and After the Surrender," by Alexander Werth. Munich was the deadline and the Western world missed it. If it is not to be too late now to retrieve the error, one must begin by understanding what happened. Since September 3, 1939, the pattern has become much clearer. For one thing people see now that the French lost far more than their Little Maginot Line when German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler took the Czech fortifications at Munich. France abdicated the throne of spiritual authority it had held for so long.