hsm -2- No. 11, June 16, midnight (Section 2) from Bordeaux
 
Affairs Baudoin; Justice, Laval; Interior, Marquet (Mayor of Bordeaux); Labor, Paul Faure
(leader of the pacifist wing of the Socialist Part); Finance Boutill; Public Works, Frossard.  The
rest said Reynaud are "of no importance".  The Ministry of Information (so called) has been
abolished.
     While it now belongs to history Reynaud referred in glowing terms to Churchill "reply'
this afternoon.  It was far-reaching in scope: it meant in reality a fusion of the two great empires. 
It might be said have marked the beginning of a United States of Europe.  The chance has now
been lost.  (END MESSAGE)  
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