"How did this situation arise? 13 the moral value of our army in doubt? Not at all. The combats which took. place in Belgium during the first days proved it, The truth is that our elas~ ical conception of the conduct of war met with a new conception. At the basis of this conception there is not only the massive use of armoured Givisions, there is not only the cooperation of armoured divisions and fighting planes, there is a will to dis organize the rear of the enemy by raids in depth and by parachutists who in Holland nearly took The! Hague and in Belgium seized the: strongest fort in Liege."
"Twill now also mention the false reports and orders given by telephone to the civilian authorities, for instance, to cause hurried evacuations," M. Reynaud declared. "The Senate will understand that of all efforts for recovery made by us, the first one is in the intellectual sphere. We must think about the war, about the new war that is being waged upon_us, and take Immediate decisions. This irprise is not the first by which we have been {aken and which we then surmounted, in the course of our: history.
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