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It would seem to say: 'How do you suppose we can resist? There was reason to fear that the public would be distracted by this change of tone and would believe that everything was lost. I explained my reasons and suggested giving Deimling's text to the newspapers in the form of a separate note. "Opinion being divided, General Pellé went to ask General de Castelnau to come and decide finally.
He chose the simpler one, gave more weight to the first phrase, inserted the words 'as had been anticipated, which supply a reassuring quality, and was flatly against inserting von Deimling's order, but was for transmitting it to the press in a special note ... " General Joffre that evening read the communiqué carefully and approved it.
General Pellé's, on the other hand, seemed too alarming. I had purposely omitted von Deimling's order of the day. To put it into the communiqué would be to break with the formula to which the public was accustomed, would be to transform it into a kind of pleading.
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