sentences:  Colonel de Villelume subsequently stated before a parliamentary commission of inquiry in 1951 that Reynaud said, as Premier of France to Pétain on that day that they must seek an armistice.Weygand said that he was in favour of saving the French army and that he "wished to avoid internal troubles and above all anarchy".Churchill's man in Paris, Edward Spears, kept up pressure on the French not to sign an armistice as this would result in the necessity for Britain to bomb French ports if occupied by Germany.