FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman
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For Frenchmen, the ultimate ideal of France is a transcendent thing. As this desperate week began, Paul Reynaud the Leader faced the Italian declaration of war with the sentence: "Nothing has lowered our will to struggle for our land and liberty." At the same time, Paul Reynaud the Frenchman said: "France cannot die."
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