Having been "a docile tool in the hands of Mr. Churchills,"
I was, on the contrary, a loyal but exacting ally.
     You know, for you were there, how, at the Supreme
Council meeting held at Paris on May 31, 1940, I got the
English to embark from then on, at Dunkirk, a larger pro-
portion of French soldiers, "the English troops remaining
in the rear gurad as much as possible."
     You know the telegram, the text of which was recently
given by the French radio, that I sent to Mr. Winston
Churchill on May 24th, when the English army abandoned
its movement toward the South, in the direction of the
Somme, for reasons to which History alone will be able to 
apply an impartial judgement.  It would have been more
fitting, besides, to give Mr. Churchill's reply also.
     You know, for you were there, that at the meetings of
the Supreme Council held at Briare on June 11th and 12th,
 I spoke to our allies with a rough frankness, since the
radio recently had the impropriety, moreover, to reproduce 
one of the speeches which I made there.
     You know that Mr. Churchill having asked of me on
June 12th that the French Governement could not make any
decision without having heard him, the Cabinet asked me
to request him to come the next day.  Foreseeing the danger
of a break between France and England in case the request
for an armistice supported by you and General Weygand should gain