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Peace Coup? Under Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, China has superabundant morale for resistance, but determination will not ground enemy airplanes or choke rifles. So strong, however, is the determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is improbable. What is perhaps more possible, certainly what the Japanese hope for, is some sort of coup within Chungking -some violent episode of treachery like the famous Sian kidnapping of Chiang...
...with the Allies in full retreat across Flanders, German armored columns had circled around to Abbeville, were approaching Boulogne, Calais, cutting the northern Allied Armies off from all support. On May 19, Maxime Weygand had supplanted Maurice Gustave Gamelin as Allied Generalissimo. It was too late...
...Generalissimo Weygand had some 500,000 fresh men (27 divisions) in the Maginot Line. When his northern front started crumbling, the time came when he had to abandon the Maginot Line to save at least some of these fortress troops ("shellfish"), at least some of their mountainous supplies of food and ammunition, before they were completely enveloped. If he could get them back to the neighborhood of Dijon they might help to hold a new defense line from the valley of the Loire through the north bastions of France's Massif Central...
...When the Nazis broke through at Sedan, defense-minded Generalissimo Gamelin was hurriedly replaced by attack-minded...
...Nosedived, but recovered when Weygand was made Allied Generalissimo...