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     6. It is inexact that at the Supreme Council which
was held June 11 ( and not the 13), at Briare (and not at 
Tours), Mr. Winston Churchill refused any further assistance
of the English air force.
     He promised, on the contrary, to study the question
as soon as he returned to London.
     It is notless inexact that "for weeks, our soldiers
had waited in vain for the English pursuit planes", for we
recieved, at my daily instances, important assistance from
the R.A.F.  In the light of what has happened since, no
one can reproach the prime minister for not having engaged
in the battle of France the whole of an air force upon
which, today, our chance of victory rests.
     As for the relation of words exchanged at that
Supreme Council, it constitutes a lack of diplomatic
correctness.  Not long since, France had deportment.
     7. It is inexact that President Roosevelt replied
"rather evasively" to the message that I had sent to him
on June 14.
     That is a failure to recognize the importance of
his reply and the generosity that inspired it.
     In his telegram of June 15, which I read to the Council
of Ministers, the President of the United States reminded
me that, in response to my appeal, the American Government
had, in the course of past weeks, supplied us with airplanes,
guns (75's) and munitions of all kinds.  Hw gave me, furthermore, the
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