If it were true that it [your policy] is breaking 
 
the precious friendship which, for a century and a half, 
 
Joined France to the greatest people in the world, whose
 
ideal is ours;
 
     If it were true that it should have for its inevl-
 
table consequence the enslavement of France, thus. iso-
 
lated, to a people whose ideal and faith are violently
 
opposed to ours, even though the war is not finished
 
and even though, after a hundred days of trials, the
 
final victory of the allie~ will appear in the distance;
 
     If it were true that you contemplated making a
 
Brest-Litovsk peace;
 
     If that were true, I should not deny the responsibi-
 
litlos that I assumed, but I should beg the forgiveness
 
of France for having done so.
 
Please accept, ...
 
          PAUL REYNAUD
 
Tr'. FGH: ELC