END OF WEYGAND PLAN
When on May 19,1940, General Weygand, at the instance of the Premier, M. Paul Reynaud, was called in to try to save Prance, then in mortal peril from the German invasion across the Meuse, between Dinant and Sedan, he presented a plan by which the Allied armies in Belgium, whose retreat was threatened by the Germans drivingwestward over northern France, should strike south from Arras while the French army south of the Somme should endeavour to make contact by a thrust northward with the northern armies. This plan was approved by Mr. Churchill and Sir John Dill in Paris on May.22, according to the story of M. Reynaud, which continues:
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 11
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114END OF WEYGAND PLAN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 11
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