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Premier & Defense Minister Paul Reynaud last week told the French Senate and the world that an intellectual revolution had been wrought in the French High Command by Germany's super-Blitzkrieg. The leader of that revolution, tight-mouthed little Maxime Weygand, the new Allied Generalissimo, shot aloft in an airplane from Paris to inspect the churning inferno in Picardy and Flanders out of which he was supposed to bring order, safety, victory...
...Left behind, beleaguered by the rising German tide, pounded by its heaviest artillery and air bombs were Allied garrisons in forts at Liége, Namur, Sedan, Montmédy, who pounded back desperately at the lava flow of German supply and reinforcement. After the break-through at Sedan, Generalissimo Gamelin issued his last-ditch order...
Said Allied Generalissimo Gamelin in his last pronunciamento before being relieved: "The British Air Force, like the French, is fighting to the last man." Actually the R. A. F. was fighting not only to the last man but to the last plane and past the point of physical exhaustion. The pilots of the R. A. F. had to make up for lack of numbers by making flight after flight and taking off on new tasks as swiftly as their planes could be refueled and remunitioned. Day and night, from end to end of the Flanders Plain, hell reigned above earth...
...last war, took over supreme civil and military power. To Maxime Weygand, the great Foch's Chief of Staff and "Savior of Warsaw" (1920), he gave supreme command of the Army (see p. 23). Edouard Daladier, who as Minister of Defense since 1936 had worked with supplanted Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, became Foreign Minister...
...greatest break in the Allied lines south of Sedan. On that same day Premier Reynaud told his Chamber of Deputies that "men and methods" would be changed. Changed they were, with a new regime of strong men for France (see p. 34) and a new Allied generalissimo, Maxime Weygand (see p. 23). ∧ Back in London, Prime Minister Churchill lunched on Friday at the Japanese Embassy with Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Minister at Large Tatsuo Kawai, French Ambassador Charles Corbin and the Iranian Minister. Significant was this first official function Mr. Churchill had found time to attend. It was a safe...