A majority in the Cabinet and should lead to my
resignation, I called to mind the saying of the Due
d'Aumale: "France was left." I presented to Mr. Churchill,
Lord Halifax and Lord Beaverbrook, who had come to Tours,
such a picture of the sufferings of France and the 
services rendered to the coalition by her that Mr. Churchill,
with tears in his eyes, gave me his promise that if France
asked for an armistice some day and if England wer vic-
torius, France would be restored "in her power and her
dignity." This promise was repeated by hm several times
after that.  After that interview, I again went to combat
the armistice with all my strength at the second meeting
 of the Cabinet, held at Cagney (?).  It was not due to me 
that France was the only one of the eight countries at
war against Germany that capitulated, although she had the
second navy in Europe and the second colonial empire in
the world.
     In acting thus, did I show myself "a docile tool in
the hands of Churchill?"  The truth is that, contrary to 
the repeated affirmations of the radio, Mr. Winston
Churchill did not have to ask me not to conclude an
 armistice, because he knew that I was against it and
that, as long as I should be head of the head of the French govrn-
ment, it would not be asked for.