REYNAUD’S PLEA
GERMAN RADIO VERSION The Christian Science Monitor reports the German radio as saying that Nazi troops had found at the French War Ministry in Paris the draft of a June telephone conversation in which Paul Reynaud, then French Premier, told British Prime Minister Churchill: “The fate of Britain as well as of France depends on the battle now in progress on the Somme and Oise.”
The radio said the draft of the talk concerning the battle which the French lost “obviously was prepared by Reynaud.” It quoted the alleged Reynaud conversation further: “I do not understand why, under these circumstances, you retain the majority of your air force in Britain for protection of your industrial establishments.
“I request you most emphatically to send 500 fighter planes immediately to France for which aerodromes are prepared.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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136REYNAUD’S PLEA Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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