"Our duty," Premier Reynaud told the nation, "is to keep our morale strong and to take no heed of such alarmist rumours in the days to come. Our soldiers are fighting and giving their lives for us, and everyone of us must prove himself worthy of our troops. This is not the time for vague words, "It is when everything would appear to be lost that the world will See what France can really do. We are facing the peril united, both in France and Britain, "Germany decided to play all her cards and pounced on three free peoples. Today she aims at the heart of France, Germany has hurled her forces of destruction on the hinge of our front.
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