Marshal Potain, broadcasting to the French nation, said: "French men and women, at the call of the President, I assumed leadership of the Government of France. I think of all those who have been fighting heroically with all their old military traditions against an enemy of huge numerical superiority. I am thinking of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war. I have given myself to France ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Tue 18 Jun 1940, Page 7
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