We’re all so shocked – everyone’s walking around in a daze. First their airfields, railways and arms depots were bombarded from the air. Then the enemy’s tanks rolled across the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg borders without warning. German planes are raining bombs down on their cities. Our Allied armies have been taken completely by surprise. I’m writing this very late, but I had to get this down. Mr Chamberlain, our Prime Minister, has resigned! People haven’t been at all happy about the way he’s been running the War. Another minister, Mr Winston Churchill, is now our Prime Minister. At nine o’clock this evening we all crowded round the wireless in the VADs’ mess to hear Mr Chamberlain’s resignation broadcast to the nation. Mr Churchill went to the palace at 6 o’clock this evening to see the King, who’s asked him to form a new government. There was a real sense of relief in the room. “We’ll be all right now,”
