GAULLE Charles de L.A.S., Paris, 11 May 1935, to Paul Reynaud; 1 page in-8 on the printed letterhead of the Presidency of the Conseil Supérieur de la Défense Nationale. He forwards an article by Colonel Fabry. "Mr. Minister, I enclose yesterday's article by Colonel Fabry: "Meliora video proboque, deteriora sequor" [I see the good, I approve it, and I do the bad]. Jean Fabry (1876-1968), a French career soldier, was 95% invalided out of the Great War and turned to journalism and politics. He was Minister for War in the fourth Laval government, from 17 June 1935 to 24 February 1936. Slight loss at the head without affecting the text, traces of paperclip. Bibliography: L. N. C., vol. 1, p. 778.