| From 'Tank War' by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
Monday 29 January 1940 Quote: No Fear for the Future
Paris; The French Havas News Agency reported that on Monday evening French Premier Daladier addressed the French people, saying:
Under the protection of its army France has preserved all those goods that other peoples have already lost or for which other nations tremble. Like our ally Great Britain, France feels no fear when it thinks of the future. It is certain of victory. The great fear that is tormenting Europe, makes pause at our borders, outside our entanglements of barbed wire and the casemates where our young men watch and fight. Total war still hesitates to break out - due to our soldiers, who ward off violence with the wall of our strength; who every day in heavy outpost battles before our defensive lines, dictate to enemy patrols how they must act....
It is good for France to be serene; it is only right and fitting for her to have absolute confidence in her fate.
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