| Main Performers | General de Gaulle - speaker |
| Set List | Speech (General de Gaulle) |
| Performance Notes | "General De Gaulle, speaking at the Albert Hall last evening at a meeting organized by the 'Francais de Grande Bretagne' on the occasion of the second anniversary of the appeal to Frenchmen to fight on in spite of the armistice, said that if war did not permit nations to ignore their solidarity, peace would obviously demand no less. To rebuild the world, suddenly becomes so troubled, confused, and small, the nations who united to spill blood would have to remain united in the service of life. Indeed the establishment of international solidarity based on real and practical grounds and inspired by the eternal principles of the human ideal, represented for Fighting France a clear and definite aim.
"For two years the waves have not ceased to batter Fighting France. At home oppression, propaganda and misery have combined in an attempt to subdue her. Abroard, she has had to overcome numberless material and moral difficulties. Yet invincibly Fighting France emerges from the seas. When a ray of her reborn glory came to rest upon her wounded soldiers at Bir Hakeim the whole world recognised France."
(The Times, 19 June 1942) |