Posed of armored divisions supported by combat ariplanes
if we did not have available an armored corps which alone
could enable us to make a victorius counter offensive?
     Do you believe that they will never know that my
counter plan was rejected, in France, as "contrary to 
logic and history", but was adopted in Germany?
     Do you believe that they will never know that for
years, through lectures, books, addresses, newspaper
articles, I incessantly called for the adoption of my
counter plan?
     Do you believe that they will never know that it was
the German armored corps that broke our front on the Meuse,
in May , 1940, then won the Battle of France and forced the 
French army out of its positions, preventing it, by its
speed, from ever establishing other positions anywhere?
     You know, better than anyone else, because of the
high authority that you exercised on the Higher War Council,
of which you were a member, why my counter plan miscarried.
     You know better than anyone wlse to what extent my
counter plan was fought, since you offered to the public,
just before the war, a book of your opinions, in which
it could read, among so many other statements: "As to 
the tanks that were to bring us back to short wars, their
failure is striking."
     To be sure, this is not the time to be starting this
debate, when the enemy is in occupation of two-thirds of our