The Need for Organisational Resilience Chapter 5

Daladier replied “He has none.” I was standing in front of the Prime Minister’s desk

when, dumbfounded, he repeated the words he had just heard. (Baudouin 1948, 30)

It became clear that previous piecemeal attacks would not stop the Germans for good,

but at least they bought some time to fall back to a second line of defence along the line

Recroi-Signy l’Abbaye (see Map 5.1).

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