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French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud (pictured with Churchill in 1950) pleaded with his counterpart to provide more air support as the German Blitzkrieg rolled on during the Battle of France in June 1940. ....
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“De Gaulle” (M) and a half ON June 18, 1940, the BBC provided four minutes of airtime for French general Charles de Gaulle to address the people of France. De Gaulle had recently been promoted to brigadier general and named as Under-Secretary of State for National Defence and War by Prime Minister Paul Reynaud during the German invasion of France. There had been no advance notice of the broadcast (nor was it recorded) and few French citizens living in England heard it – at that time, few Frenchmen had heard of him. Nevertheless, history regards the speech as a formative moment of the French Resistance that gave the occupying Germans so much discomfort until they went home four years later. ....