I am surprised that you reprint the second sentence of Franklin Foer's peiece on Zelenskiy. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, de Gaulle was not the national leader, running away. His army and his government had collapsed. He was the army's most junior general, and had been a minister for only two weeks, appointed after the Dunkirk evacuation. He accepted Churchill's invitation to come to Britain, to build from here the multifarious opposition that Zelenskiy now, admirably, leads. JM
I am surprised that you reprint the second sentence of Franklin Foer's peiece on Zelenskiy. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, de Gaulle was not the national leader, running away. His army and his government had collapsed. He was the army's most junior general, and had been a minister for only two weeks, appointed after the Dunkirk evacuation. He accepted Churchill's invitation to come to Britain, to build from here the multifarious opposition that Zelenskiy now, admirably, leads. JM