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...Frenchmen locked in Hitler's embrace might, for all the rest of the earth knew of their feelings and their fate, have been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from were those willing to play Hitler...
...every Frenchman - and no Englishman - accepted the Compiegne armistice terms. In London General Charles de Gaulle, the 50-year-old Under Secretary for War in Paul Reynaud's Cabinet, who for years had argued in vain for greatly expanded mechanization of the Army, appealed for continued resistance to the Nazis. "This capitulation," he said over the radio, "was signed before all means of resistance had been exhausted. This capitulation delivers into the hands of the enemy, who will use them against our Allies, our arms, our warships and our gold. . . . There is no longer on the soil of France...
...Reynaud succeeded Daladier in France...
...Paul Reynaud...
...Premier Reynaud decided to abandon them...