"At the beginning of the last war we held on despite an inferiority caused by a lack of heavy artillery. We suffered from our lack of machine-guns, we were taken by sur prise when that cowardly arm, gas, was used, and despite all this we adapted ourselves to the situation and, the end, conquered. It will be the same today: if each' one wants it, each of these workers who toil twelve hours a day bends over his tool with intense passion, if each man and each woman realizes the Rreatness of the hour, we shall live. Abroad, they are beginning to under-Stand. "Far away, millions of men, women and children are beginning realize that it is their future that is at stake. Let them not understand it too late "In this grave hour," he concluded, "we are proud to think that two, of France's children, who had the right to rest upon their laurels placed themselves at the disposal of the country."
Ue stressed that the conduct of military operations on the battlefield depend upon General Weygand alone from now on.
In conclusion, he emphasized once ogam that France and Great Britain
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