The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Edward Spears: Self

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• Sir Edward Spears, De Gaulle's Head of British Mission : There were 15,000 French sailors in Liverpool. I went and spoke to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the war. But there was no way. We were so low on people, that we needed them to dig the trenches, and we offered them wages to do so. They said no. They said, "France is no longer in the war, we no longer have the right to dig trenches." You see the kind of attitude they had. Their desire to get out was almost spiteful. As for what would become of England, they didn't give a care. That's the kind of attitude they had. They felt that is was inconceivable that the English succeed where the French army had been beaten.