"MUST FIGHT ON!"
DE GAULLE'S APPEAL
TO ALL FREE FRENCHMEN
HEART OF FRANCE
LONDON, July 2.
General de Gaulle has broadcast another appeal to all free Frenchmen. The course of honour and hope for Frenchmen is to fight on, he declared in a broadcast from London in French tonight.
As a result of the capitulation of the Bordeaux Government, there was a crisis in the consciences of Frenchmen. They were torn between their rulers, who had fallen under the power of Germany, and France, which called out for deliverance. General de Gaulle urged Frenchmen to ask themselves whether Joan of Arc, Richelieu, Napoleon, Clemenceau, or Marshal Foch would have ever consented to hand over the.French armies to their enemy for use against the allies of France. Would the naval heroes of French history have surrendered the French fleet intact? Would France's great colonial administrators have tolerated handing over the strategic centres of the French Empire without putting up a fight? Let good Frenchmen ask themselves these questions and they would understand where lay their honour, their interests, their common sense, and the heart of France. The heart of France was with those who were carrying on the battle and who would one day share the victory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 8
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