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GAMELIN
starts a PANIC
NARLY in May it was Then he slowly closed his file
E apparent to all the old and said emphatically. I
hands in French politics that the cannot make my point of view prevail, I am no longer head of Reynaud Cabinet would not the Government." NEW Performance escape the tidal wave which was
The members of the Council, bearing down on it to sweep it looking on at the duel between the two men, were aghast. This a Minis- The Premier was so haunted dispute would mean by the thought that to a great terial crisis, and what would be-
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From the moment he came to power and especially after the disappointments of the Nor- Then, at dawn the next day, wegian expedition, his actions Hitler ordered his troops to in- were consistently unfortunate. vnde Holland and Belgium. There could be no question now Stories went round of his of a Ministerial crisis. blunders, his nerve-storms, his
Phone 27778-9 fits of anger, and his ill-con- There could be no ques-
Gamelin had staked everything-and he had lost, sidered Inspirations-not to tion, either, of changing the mention his sins of omission. Generalissimo.
brate, characterless military of- when all was added together, a Relations between M. Rey- The avalanche swept down on ficial, whose will power had been panic. naud and M. Daladier, who was Belgium, on Holland, and then debused by twenty years of Government red-tape and poli- then Minister of Defence, grew soon on France.
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Reynaud's Attack
Gamelin chose the strategy of the battle in Belgium.
He staked everything on one Nearly a month before, on throw. He raced towards his April 12. M. Reynaud had de destiny, dragging us after him. livered an attack on General In the afternoon of Monday, Gamelin at a meeting of the War May 13, M. Daladier's face bore Council. M. Daladier bluntly the expression familiar to it on stopped him.
bad days.
But from that moment M. Someone asked him timidly: Reynaud resolved to replace "Are you satisfied with the way
Commander-in- the offensivė is developing?"" Gamelin 19
The sitting of the Council was a sight which will never be for-
"That front is broken! The gotten by those of the men German motorised divisions present who had retained their
the rond to Paris, self-control. Nothing will stop them."
are
On
That is what he announced
to the Government on the
Confessions
A Generalissimo, hopelessly
night of May 15-16, advising at sea who declared:
it to leave the capital.
Rumours
"I made a mistake. I thought
the instrument was sound, but it bent. Divisions fled without
It was M. Roy, Minister of fighting, a battalion of tanks
Chief, either by General A large map of the battle- the Interior at this date, who would not move," etc., etc.
an
Georges, General Huntziger.
the Generalissimo's General Giraud. Or General front stood on an ensel. His received Weygand.
glance went from the North Sea message. It was enough to dis- A Premier who showed spirit, old veteran's but who grew excited and on to the Maginot Line, and he turb even What he had been unable to shook his head.
edge; a President of the Re- obtain on April 12 he decided
"I'm not at all satisfied. I M. Roy tried to get in touch public who had a telephone call How to try to take by force.
was wrong to allow myself to be with the head of the Govern- nude every half-hour to find out
a
On May 9 he called a Cabinet bulky file, and it took him two inceting. He arrived with
hours to read its contents to his fellow Ministers,
Many of his colleagues had not seen him for a fortnight. They found him much, altered, thinner, feverish of eye, un- steady of voice.
Gradually Paul Reynaud grew animated. His reading became harsh, almost violent, He turned the leaves heaped before him with the regularity-of-a- metronome.
Daladier's Reply
When he had finished, M. Daladier raised his finger, in- dicating that he wished to speak.
night.
France-the Whole Truth
Second Article In The Series
by ELIE J. BOIS
Famous Paris Editor—an intimate of France's Rulers.
carried away into sending soment. The poor man found it a many of our troops to Belgium. troublesome business. I didn't want to.
what time his wife and house- hold staff were to leave..
M. Paul Reynaud, at first crushed, recovered himself.
He decided to go to the Cham- ber, where he made a short statement, which revealed, and aroused emotion, a speech of the kind needed at that moment.
That evening, over the radio, he renewed his declaration in different words, swearing that it was when all seemed lost that -the-world-would-see-of-wokat-
France was capable.
I met him at the Foreign-Of- fice as he was returning from Orders had been given that the Palais Bourbon. He looked "I ought to have followed my M. Reynaud's rest was not to like a man taxed to the utter- be interrupted, and none of his most by fatigue, distress and presentiment."
intimates would say where he responsibilities, but he was Two days later a Council of could be found.
standing up to the storm. He made his reply to the Ministers was held at the Ely- Premier's case in a tone of see, and the Minister of Na-
A Stand? seeming calm. He declared that tional Defence had the sorrow temper, and was able eventually the problem raised was a grave ful task of announcing that the to communicate the incredible or indifference to the Minister Meuse one and could not be a matter front had been broken on the news to M. Reynaud.
between Namur and
of National Defence.
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Dinant.
At last the Minister lost his
- We were face to face it was In his office and by way of be- The news spread in frag- ginning the conversation, I ments, no one knew exactly asked: Is it true that the news- papers are to withdraw to the "In this particular case," M. At this same Council a most how.
provinces?" year, adopted a resolution, Daladier declared (meaning confused discussion took place
"Rethel has been overrun." Spark"reiterating their oath of Norway), "the Generalissimo's over Italy's entry into the war,
"Who said. anything · 80 "The Germans are at Laon." crazy?" allegiance to King Christian X conduct is worthy of nothing but which was considered imminent. One of the Ministers went one of Denmark, and expressed the praise. I am prepared to cover
"They'll be in Paris this even- "The Ministry of Informa- hope that for as long as Green-him fully in this matter," he better than the most rabid
tion." Italophiles by proposing that ing." land remains cut off from the added.
offers should be made to Italy. "Herriot said to inother country, the Govern-
a friend: "If he is guilty, then I am, "We might,'" ment of the United States of therefore place my resignation offer to
he suggested, 'Before two o'clock I advise you before- Paris; we shall fight in "It's stupid! We shall fight internationalise to leave París," " America will continue to hold in
Paris, if need be!" as a member of the Government Gibraltar." mind the exposed position of the
at the disposal of the Prime
"The sitting of the Chamber As I left him, I said: "Game- Danish flag in Greenland, of the Minister."
Front Broken has been cancelled."
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He raised his arms with native Greenland and Danish population and of established
It was rumours of that kind a gesture of indignant grief. Someone with a sense of hu- with which we were harassed. public order." The text of the seconds,
"Weygand?" I continued.
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There was silence. For some which seemed very
"Perhaps."
agreement. also expressed the long to those present, M. Rey mour put an end to the discus- In the form they were bandied "They told me.”
about they were false. But Bombs & Petrol for a territorial
"grave danger that European naud, white-faced, appeared to sion with these few words:
possessions
be waiting for someone to speak. in
"It seems to me that you want there was a basis of truth un- America may be converted into Greenland, the Faroe Islands and to offer something that isn't derneath.
The Generalissimo had re- strategic centres of aggression Iceland as stepping stones across
yours. I can't imagine, or, The newspapers were told turned to his G.H.Q. Ho. was against nations of the American the Northern Atlantic, and at rather, I can imaging only a fast enough. General confu- going to "try" to make a stand,
Continent."
one time a German attempt to well, what the English would sion. Everyone was agog with no ho had been asked. The signing of the pact, which seize Iceland was barely fore- say when they heard of your the news. aroused considerable indignationstalled by the landing of a party
What was the good of asking suggestion!"
That was how the morning of him to try when he had lost his in Berlin, did not attract much of British marines. The Atlan- But this was only a joke in May 16 was seen from outside. faith and had just said: "The attention in the neutral press, tic shipping situation with so camparison with what was go- Seen from inside the Govern- Instrument was not sound"? but it has nevertheless, a far- many naval and air bases in ing on at G.H.Q. reaching influence on the conduct Nazi-occupied Europe, is already
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General Gamelin, grently everything. And he had lost.
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TO-MORROW
Weygand, called in to save Francë,
days loses faith and joins the de-
be considered the measure of many had succeeded in obtaining Germany's desire to obtain con- control of Greenland the position Telegrams bringing despair mier, who had alarmed the trol of Greenland herself. Ber-would have been doubly danger and telephone calls that struck President, the two Speakers and starts with enthusiasm, but in ihres lin, while talking glibly of ous. It is due to the foresight mortal blows overwhelmed him. his colleagues. Illegality, has broken every of the people of that country, as written and unwritten code of well as to the readiness of the and big sapper's head nor Foch's alarmed some thousands of of
He had neither Joffre's back Thoy, in their turn, had rentista, law and honour, and therefore United States to accept further
Incks the authority to do aught responsibility, that the highway: Imagination.
Bois warns Reynaud of a powerful ficials, journalists and friends; plot to separate France from Bellain. but nequiesce. Hitler was cor-ucross the Atlantic is now in a He had not the reflexes of the who, for their part, had taken The military collapse comiinues. tainly not blind to the importance fair way to recolving the protec- lender, but only those of a very it upon themselves to alarm Belgiam capiiniates. Was King Leo- of these Arctic groups, such as tion it so sorely needs.
Intelligent, over-pliable, inverte- sufficient people to produce, pold justified?.