It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.