1940年法国投降德国后，经济学家凯恩斯立即写信给记者说 ： “ 就我个人而言，现在我第一次有十足的信心，我们将赢得战争。
In 1940, immediately after the fall of France to the Germans, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote to a correspondent: “Speaking for myself I now feel completely confident for the first time that we will win the war.”