The Church in 2010 and France in 1940

Eugene Kennedy, NSAC News

Eric Sevareid began his career as a reporter for CBS Radio just as France buckled and fell to the lightning strike onslaught of the German armies in the fair spring of 1940. The country of so many remembered glories seemed in denial to the journalist who described the "unreality in it all." The professional classes displayed "a determined effort to retain... a way and habit of life which the closing in of history was grinding away."

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