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GAMELIN starts a PANIC
NARLY in May it was
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Then he slowly closed his file apparent to all the old and said emphatically: "As 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."
RWBY.
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 The Premier was so haunted dispute would mean a Minis- by the thought that to a grunt
terial crisis, and what would be-- 'extent he lost his head.
come of them?
Hitler Acts
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. vade Holland and Belgium.
Stories went round of his of a Ministerial crisis.
There could be no question now blunders, his nerve-storms, his Phone 27778-9 fits of anger, and his ill-con- There could be
sidered inspirations-not to tion, either, of changing the
Gamalin had staked everything-and he had lost, 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 debased by twenty years of then Minister of Defence, grow soon on France.
Government red-tape and poli- increasingly strained.
tical pettifogging.
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STRATEGIC GREENLAND
Reynaud's Attack
no ques-
Gamelin chose the strategy of the battle in Belgium.
He staked everything on one Nearly a month before, on throw. He raced towards hig April 12, M. Reynaud had de destiny, dragging us after him.. Gamelin at a meeting of the War May 13, M. Daladier's face bore livered an attack on General
In the afternoon of Monday, Council. M. Daladier bluntly the expression familiar to it on stopped him.
bad days.
But from that moment M. Reynaud resolved
Someone asked him timidly: to replace "Are you satisfied with the way Gamelin as Commander-in- the offensive is developing?"" Chief, either by General
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 are on the road to Paris, self-control. Nothing will stop them."
That is what he announced
to the Government on tho
Confessions
night of May.15-16, advising at sen who declared: it to leave the capital.
A Generalissimo, hopelessly
Rumours
"I made a mistake. I thought the instrument was sound, but it bent. Divisions fled without It was M. Roy, Minister of Georges, General Huntziger, A large map of the battle. the Interior at this date, who fighting, a battalion of tanks
the or General front stood on an cascl. His received
Generalissimo's would not move," otc., etc. glance went from the North Sea message. It was enough to dis- A Premier who showed spirit, to the Maginot Line, and he turb even an old veteran's but who grew excited and on edge; a President of the Re-
General Giraud,
What he had been unable to shook his head. obtain on April 12 he decided now to try to take by force.
On May 9 he called a Cabinet bulky file, and it took him two meeting. He arrived with a hours to read its contents to his fellow Ministers.
THE agreement recently sign-Weygand. ed in Washington between the United States Government and Denmark with regard to the defence of Greenland is perhaps one of the most significant events of recent months. It should enable the United States to play a more effective part in the great battle of sca and air which will finally determine the outcome of the war. At the same time the extension of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine to include Greenland will naturally add strength to the wall of defence
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Many of his colleagues had not seen him for a fortnight: 1 They found him much altered, thinner, feverish of eye, stendy of voice.
un-
animated. His reading became Gradually Paul Reynaud grew
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.
"I'm not at all satisfied. I M. Roy tried to get in touch public who had a telephone call was wrong to allow myself to be with the head of the Govern- made every half-hour to find out
France-the Whole Truth.
Second Article In The Series
by ELIE J. BOIS
:
Famous Paris Editor-an intimate of France's Rulers.
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 what France_was_copable.-
WAS
carried-away-Into-sending-so ment--The poor man found it a many of our troops to Belgium. troublesome business.
I met him at the Foreign Of- I didn't want to.
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- The pact is the outcome of an
presentiment."
be interrupted, and none of his most by fatigue, distress and expressed desire for protection
Two days later a Council of could be found.
intimates would say where he responsibilities, but he by the people of Greenland
He made his reply to the Ministers was held at the Ely.
standing up to the storm. Premier's case in a tone of see, and the Minister of Na- themselves, and covers the period seeming calm. He declared that tional Defence had the sorrow temper, and was able eventually At last the Minister lost his
A Stand? of the war and to such time na the problem raised was a grave ful task of announcing that the to communicate the incredible Denmark is in a position to
one and could not be a matter front had been broken on the news to M. Reynaud. resume adequate control. When
of indifference to the Minister Meuse between Namur and Denmark collapsed, the United of National Defence. Greenland Councils in May last year, adopted
a their
Dinant.
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 provinces?"
"Who Baid anything crazy?"
"The Ministry of Informa- tion."
"Rethel has been overrun." "The Germans are at Laon." "They'll be in Paris this even-
"In this particular case," M. At this same Council a most how. "reiterating
resolution, Daladier declared (meaning confused discussion took place onth of Norway), "the Generalissimo's over Italy's entry into the wor, allegiance to King Christian X conduct is worthy of nothing but which was considered imminent. of Denmark, and expressed the praise. I am prepared to cover One of the Ministers went one 1 Small High Explosive hope that for as long as Green-him fully in this matter," he better than the most rabid
land remains cut off from the added. Bomb
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"If he is guilty, then I am. I therefore place my resignation
as a member of the Government Gibraltar." at the disposal of the Prime Minister."
There was silence. For some
Beemed
very
to
Front Broken
or,
ing."
"The sitting of the Chumber has been cancelled."
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before Paris; we shall fight in "It's stupid! We shall fight Paris, if need be!"
As I left him, I said: "Game- lin?" He raised his arms with a gesture of indignant grief.
They told me."
"Weygand?" I continued,
"Perhaps."
public order." The text of the seconds, which
Someone with a sense of hu- with which we were harassed. It was rumours of that kind agreement also expressed the long to these present, M. Roy-mour put an end to the discus In the form they were bandied "grave danger that European paud, white-faced, appeared to sion with these few words:
about they were false. But possessions in be waiting for someone to speak. "It seems to me that you want there was a basis of truth un-
Greenland, the Faroe Islands and to offer something that isn't derneath. Iceland as stepping stones across yours. I the Northern Atlantic, and at rather, I can imagine only too fast enough. General confu- going to "try" to make a stand,
can't imagine,
The Generalissimo had re- The newspapers were told turned to his G.H.Q. He was one time a German attempt to well, what the English would sion. Everyone was agog with as he had been asked. seize Iceland was barely fore- say when they heard of your the news. stalled by the landing of a party
suggestion "
What was the good of asking cic shipping situation with so camparison with what was go. Seen from inside the Govern- instrument was not sound"?
But this was only a joke in May 16 was seen from outside. faith and had just said: "The That was how the morning of him to try when he had lost his many naval and air bases in ing on at G.H.Q. Nazi-occupied Europe, is already sufficiently serious, but if Ger-
The signing of the pact, which aroused considerable indignation in Berlin, did not attract much attention in the neutral press, but it has nevertheless, & far- reaching influence on the conduct of the war. Berlin's wrath can
of British marines. The Atlan-
bo considéred the measure Germany's desire to obtain con- control of Greenland the position
of many had succeeded in obtaining everything. And he had lost. General Gamelin,
TO-MORROW
ment, it was in broad outline General Gamelin had staked like this:---
greatly. tin, while talking glibly of ous. It is due, to the foresight mortal blows overwhelmed him. President, the two Speakers and starts with enthusiasm, but in three trol of Greenland herself. Ber- would have been doubly danger- and telephono calls that struck mier, who had alarmed the Telegrams bringing despair alarmed, had alarmed the Pre-
Weygand, called in to save France, illegality, has broken every of the peonie of that country, as written and unwritten code of well na to the readiness of the
his colleagues. He had neither Joffre's back
days loses faith and Jelas, the de- law and honour, and therefore United States to accept further and big sapper's head nor Foch's alarmed some thousands of of-
They, in their turn, had feallats. lacks the authority to do aught responsibility, that the highway. Imagination.
Bols warns Reynand oɛ a powerful ficials, journalists and friends; plot to separate Fradice from Britain.
The military collapen, ceniinua
but acquiesce. Hitlor was cor-ucross the Atlantic is now in a He had not the reflexes of the who, for their part, had takon tainly not blind to the importance fair way to receiving the protoc-leader, but only those of a very it upon themselves to alarm Belgian pitulates. Wie Kai Leo- of these Arctic groups, such as tion it so sorely needs.
intelligent, over-pliable, inverte- sufficient people to produco, pola jasiided?
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