party of an ss trooper, porcelain statue. the british foreign office, when ordered the british national football or soccer team when they played in berlin, to give the nazi salute. we forget how much britain was kind of cozying up, especially the ruling party, and the american ambassador to london, joseph kennedy, thought that exactly the right thing to do, and in fact, he writes a letter to franklin roosevelt, september 11, 1939, advising roosevelt to make peace with germany because the british were going to lose. that very same day, by the way, f dr. opens up the famous back channel to churchill in response to his distrust of joseph kennedy. where was i getting with all of this? >> host: class. >> guest: so they're both attuned to class issues. ore well, of course, sees the world through a bit of a class prism but churchill notes something interest. the pilots of the royal air force are not the aristocracy. he asked how many pie lets win to private schools and the find a very small number. the 5,000 pilots who win the battle of britain and help stave off the german invasion that everybody expected in 1940, they were middle c