CAN Wm Shirer Coverage Of French Surrender (1

Here a few feet from where we're standing, and the boy came old vogglingly railroad coach where the armistice was signed on that chilly morning at November 11th 1918. Negotiations for another armistice, the one to end the Provo-Robotron 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 potentialing here this afternoon, It was difficult to comprehend that a new, select a little clearing in the mid-foot of forest

of Compian from where we're talking to you now. An 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 grey morning 23 years ago.

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

And on a system like the other that was signed on this spot to bring armed armed hope so it is 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. The last time, the representatives of France