"We sent every man we could to France as fast as we could re equip and transport their formations.
"All conquered countries shall be stored, "The battle of France is over, the battle of Britain is about to begin. If we lose the whole world. Including the United States, will sink Into the abyss of a new dark age.
"Phe battle of France was lost by an unfortunate strategical opening by the extraordinary and unforeseen power of armoured columns and the very great numerical preponderance ofthe German Army, "The French will throw away great opportunities and east away" their future if they do not continue the war accordance with their treaty obligations, from which we have not felt able to release them." The friendship with the French people he said, would never be lost sight of, They would endure what the French had! endured, suffer" what they suffered.
"Lei us brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the' British Empire and' Commonwealth last for a thousand years men wil sul! say, "This was their greatest, ne! tt net reciting these facts for he purpose of recrimination, That, 1 judge, would be utterly futile and even harmful. We cannot afford it recite them in order to explain why it was that we did not have, as We could have had, between 12 and British divisions fighting in Tine in this great battle, instead of only three, put all this'on the shell. The historians wil select their doct-nents to tell their stories—Reuter,
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