"France, on whom the war has been imposed, speaks the same when she fights as she did (ore. In your name, I affirm that we are fighting and will continue to fight to obtain final guarantees of security. Our humblest soldiers as our greater leaders understand the peril that would threaten our country if, we had demobilized trusting in empty promises, we were compelled to face sudden aggression in a few months.
"I know," he affirmed, "that all would anew accomplish their duty to their country, but they would then be obliged to join their units under enemy fire, gather and organize themselves under air raid alarms, No. Frenchman would forgive us for having thus imperilled France, "In the minds of the soldiers, all the problems with which I have dealt are self-evident and permit of mo hesitation in the solution.
"In his trenches, the German soldier now says to himself, "My Government protested against the Versailles Treaty in the name of the right of people to determine their own fate. Now it has conquered Vienna in Austria, Prague in Czechoslovakia and Warsaw in Poland. That policy of violence has thrown me into murderous war. Those nations had the same right to live as the German nation The one. cause I am defending is not a just
French Cause True and Just "On the other hand," M. Daladier continued, "the French soldier says, "My country has done everything to Save peace. France oppresses no people and wishes to oppress none. I am here to defend my country and avert the tragic fate which so sadly has struck at Europe in the past two years, affecting millions of men, women and children. I wish to end such a state of things. The cause I am defending is a just one. I will fight for it until victory.'
"What our soldiers think, the People of France also think, and the Government, in its daily activities and its' unswerving determination, will be worthy of the faith of pur whole country."
In the early part of -his frank address, the Premier attacked German Propaganda methods, voiced his peace readiness and intention to keep the "informed of all developments It with the Communist situation inside France.
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