Free French Movement (1940-1942), on the afternoon and evening of June 17, 1940, de Gaulle was with some well-known French 427 people in the UK, such as Jean... Monnet and Ambassador Kolbe discussed ways to establish a French resistance center abroad. With the exception of Monnet's deputy, Rene Privin, de Gaulle received little support from his compatriots. However, on the evening of June 18, he obtained permission from the British government and made a broadcast to the French people. Although the Free French Movement took this time as the official birth date, the content of this first broadcast by de Gaulle was limited to expressing his own confidence in the future of France and Germany's eventual defeat. Although the speech urged all those willing to continue fighting to come to Britain and contact him, it did not announce the formation of any coordinated movement headed by him (although as an appeal against defeatism, the speech did was eloquent and inspiring) uttered the famous saying that appeared on recruitment posters across Britain a few days later: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war."