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... Palais Bourbon was already packed when Prime Minister Léon Blum entered at 09:03.
The French Cabinet sat divided not by party, but by fear.
Blum removed his glasses, wiped them, and placed them carefully on the table.
"Germany has completed its occupation of the Rhineland. Cologne, Koblenz, Trier. The entire zone is under Wehrmacht control. No resistance met. No Allied presence challenged."
Foreign Minister Laval leaned forward. "And we allowed it."
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