The Archive · 1940

Plans Turned Down

Gaulle, who was stripped honours and virt led Secretary nand's "war cabinet" He was appointed to the Reynaud Cabinet after Vietoriously leading a French tank column which annihilated a German tank column north of Laou.

In 1933 Gen. de Gaulle, then a colonel, outlined the basis of a professional mechanized army for France.

His proposals, however, were rejected by the French Government.

Later he converted M. Reynaud to his ideas and on March 31 1935, M. Reynaud submitted a bill to the of Deputies which would have created a professional mechanized army composed of ten standing divisions of tanks and one division of reserves. The Chamber of Deputies war committee also turned down this proposal Gen. de Gaulle inspired M. Rey-nand's book: "The French Military Problem," which was published in 1937.—United Press.

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