The Swiss press remains full of admiration for the Allied armies evacuated from northern France, according to a special commentary.
The "Tribune" says "the Allied defeat at no time and nowhere took on the character of a rout, and the way in which the evacuation of Dunkirk was successfully carried out will mark a glorious page in the annals of military science."
"Germany," the newspaper continues, "prophesied the Waterloo of the Democracies: this hope was not realized. In throwing back the Allies to the sea, the German army scored a first-class strategic success, but she did not succeed in breaking the adversary's fighting power or cutting off his retreat.
"The heroic behaviour of the small British detachment in the Calais citadel constitutes a very proud answer to the insinuations of German propaganda, which pretended that the English only. thought of flight
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