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...Colonies, the Premier shifted Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...
...Paul Reynaud never gave allegiance to the view that an impregnable defense was enough to win a modern war, in 1935 opposed military appropriations on that ground. This, and a creditable record during his eight weeks as Premier, were the best proof that he could find "new methods." With the illustrious Marshal to give advice and confidence, the dynamic Mandel to deal with weakness within, and dictator-wise Edouard Daladier to watch France's interests abroad, Premier Reynaud prepared to concentrate responsibility, rouse the nation from its Maginot psychology, give France decisive leadership for the inevitable counterattack...
Last week France met German invasion for the third time in a life span, met it with traditional realism, rhetoric and resourcefulness. To a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies death-serious Premier Paul Reynaud said: "Hitler wants to win the war in two months. If he fails he is lost and he knows it. ... We are perfectly aware of the danger. We know the days, weeks and months coming now will determine the centuries to come. . . . We must not content ourselves with hope and words. Our soldiers are fighting and French blood is flowing. . . . Our lives count for nothing...
...public highway was not allowed, "except for the performance of a public mission." Alert for signs of a Fifth Column, authorities posted guards at each of Paris' gates, interned all German nationals (Nazis and anti-Nazis alike) in two huge bicycle-racing arenas, prepared to apply sternly Premier Reynaud's threat that "for every weakness there will be the penalty of death...
...Thursday he flew to Paris and gave France's Premier Paul Reynaud a thoroughgoing fight talk. That was the day of the 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...