"We are perfectly aware of the danger," Premier Reynaud said. "We know that the days, weeks and months coming now will determine the centuries that are to follow.
"These plutocratic nations, as Goebbels calls them, are governed by men belonging to all classes of people. On the day when everything would seem to be lost, the world shall see what France is capable of. We must not content ourselves with vague hope and words....We may be induced to take measures which yesterday would have appeared revolutionary. Perhaps we shall have to change methods and men.
"For every failure," he concluded, "there will be punishment. We must forge new weapons immediately. We are full of hope, and, our lives count for nothing. One thing alone counts, and that is the preservation of France,"—United Press,
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