21 CBS-NBC Coverageof French Surrender

Here a few feet from where we're standing, and the boy came old vogglingly railroad coats where the armistice was signed on that chilly morning at November 11, 1918. Negotiations for another armistice, the one to end the Provo-Robecrum France in Germany, began at 3.30 pm, German summertime this afternoon.

We're turning back to the clock, what a rushing of history. We've been watching here in this beautiful Compian forest this afternoon. But it comes after that dam near 22 years ago. Yet even the weather, before we had one of those lovely warm June days, which you get in this part of France once it occurs,

about this time of year. At least go to me reaching out our Hitler and Phil Marshall going, and the other German leaders laying down the terms of remissist to the first part of potential right here this afternoon, It was difficult to comprehend that a new selected little clearing in the midfoot of forest of

Compian from where we're talking to you now and Armistice was signed here on a cold grain morning at 5 AM on November 11th, 1919. The railroad coach, Edward Marshall Fosse's private car, stands a few seat-away from it here at exactly the same spot where it stood on that grain morning 23 years ago.

And what and only it is true, Eddall Fittler sat in the seat after pipe that day by Marshal Ford. It was with that time was only an unknown corporal in the German Army. And in that quaint old wartime buggling car, another aim of this is being grown up as I fix you now.

And honestly, if the guy might be other, that was signed in this spot to bring armed facilities to a halt between those ancient enemies, Germany and France. Only everything, everything that we've been seeing here this afternoon in Compium 4 has been so reversed.