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...January 1940, while France was trying to sit out the war, Colonel de Gaulle again raised his voice. From his tank brigade in Lorraine he sent a 17-page memorandum to General Gamelin, Premier Daladier and 20 others: "The Maginot Line, however reinforced, can be crossed. . . . The defender who limits himself to resisting in a fixed position with antiquated weapons is doomed." Nobody paid any attention to De Gaulle...
...General Huntziger he told his story, presented proofs. General Huntziger investigated, learned that Premier Reynaud's accusation was based on an unconfirmed report which he heard just half an hour before he went on the air last May. General Corap had repeatedly complained to General Maurice Gamelin, then in command of the French Army, that he lacked materiel and men to meet a German advance. The bridges over the Meuse were indeed blown...
...from jeopardy nor won him real success. Before the end of fateful 1941 Hitler may be Man of the Century -if Britain falls. If Britain still stands at the end of 1941, Adolf Hitler may be on his way to join the distinguished company of Benito Mussolini, Generals Gamelin and Almazán, and John Llewellyn Lewis, those men of high hopes who failed to come through in the crisis year...
Last week, as the third of a series of seven Romains articles (The Mystery of Daladier, The Mystery of Gamelin, The Mystery of Leopold, etc.) appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, they began to realize that self-important little Jules Romains was also one of the most curious characters the period between the two world wars produced: that he was Europe's most indefatigable and unsuccessful peace-fixer, whose naivete was only equaled by his Tom Sawyerish delight in conspiracy...
There were certain to be questions on whether Gamelin sacrificed his ill-equipped troops to cover his own blunder, why Reynaud and Daladier ever conceived that France could defeat Germany, why planes were abandoned intact for the enemy to take over, and who were the men responsible for such errors as ordering an armaments factory immediately abandoned when the assembly line was filled with virtually completed tanks. Everything could come under review with a court charged to determine and judge the men responsible for "the passage from the state of peace to a state of war" and whose acts subsequently...