4. It is inexact that "the armistice spared French
families the hence forth vain sacrifice of their children."
     As soon as the (military) command declared that the
fight had become purposeless, I proposed to stop it
on the osil of metropolitan France, as it had been in the
Netherlands, which would have spared us the losses suffered
during the long periods which were necessary for the obtain-
ing of the armistice.  This would have been the case if I
had not been obliged to yield the power, succumbing to the
coalition composed of yourself, General Weygand, and the
majority of the ministers to whom high military author-
ities stated: "In three weeks England will have her neck
wrung like a chicken."
     It is not, therefore, the government of which I was
 the head nor any of its members which can be accused of
having thought that "French blood had not flowed enough."
     5. It is inexact to say that the armistice terms
"would have been less onerous" if it had been asked for
sooner.
     When, on June 12 at Cange, General Wegand asked to
conclude an armistice, our armies had succumbed in the
home country.  Germany showed, and shows every day, that
she intends to obtain the maximum results from her victory
within the framework and without the framework of the armistice.