Attributed to him in a caption, which said, 'Frenchmen heard Marshal Petain pronounce this requiem over a lost France.' Our spirit of enjoyment was stronger than our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to have more than we wanted to give. We tried to spare effort, and met disaster.
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