Notes
The author is indebted to the University of Southampton for special leave and to Yale University for electing him to a John M. Olin postdoctoral fellowship for 1988–89, which facilitated the work for this article. He is likewise grateful to Generals Delmas and Bassac along with their staff at the Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre (SHAT), and to General Robineau and his colleagues at the Service Historique de l'Armée de l'Air (SHAA), Vincennes, France. Thanks are owing also to Jean Vanwelkenhuyzen, Jean Stengers and Jacques Willequet for helping locate Belgian sources bearing on 1940, and to Mlle. F. Peemans, archivist at the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Commerce Extérieure, Brussels.