VISIT TO LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 7

VISIT TO LONDON.

General De Gaulle Confers With Mr. Churchill. CONDUCT OF THE WAR. (Reed. 10 a.m.) LOS DOS, Nov. 26. A communique issued from the Free French headquarters says General de Gaulle arrived in London and conferred with Mr. Churchill. It explains: "After organising his forces in Equatorial Africa and the C'ameroons and completing the rallying of Gabon, General de Gaulle wanted to confer with the British Government on various political and military problems in connection with the conduct of the war." In a broadcast to France, General de Gaulle said: "With the Italian armies in Libya, Egypt and Abvesinia showing their impotence, the British Air Force destroying Mussolini's ships and Italians running before the Greeks, you will now realise the paramount importance of the part the French Empire's Air Force, which was intact at the armistice, would have played in Africa and Syria if it had not been sold to the enemy by the armistice betrayal. You now realise from experience the nature of the new order in Europe. But the patriotic passion of the French people is growing. Cultivate it, to hasten the day when justice will overtake our enemies and their friends at Vichy."