The Archive · 1940

REALISTS AT THE HELM

June 8.

It Mr, Winston Churchill's speech on Tuesday was inspiring, the same can with complete safety be said of the broadcast which M. Paul Reynaud, the French Premier, made on Thursday evening, an account of which appears in another column. A day after the second great German onslaught had commenced he was able to state that General Maxime Weygand had expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which the battle on the Somme was being waged and the sway his orders to resist at all costs have been executed. And what is of even greater importance M. Reynaud gave the lie to the

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