AMERICA AND VICHY.
CRITICISM OF RECOGNITION. EX-AMBASSADOR’S VIEWS. (Received, this day, 11.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 7. The withdrawal of American recognition of the Vichy Puppet Government would solidify 05 per cent, of the French people behind the United Nations, according to Mr Walter Edge,, who before the war wasi American Ambassador to France. Emphasising that he was. speaking as a private citizen Mr Edge said: “The Government unfortunately seems 1 ’ to feel it necessary to continue recognition of Vichy with which only a 'small percentage of the French people are in sympathy. Laval’s action in conscripting workmen will certainly never lead to a free or rejuvenated France.”
Mr Edge said he assumed that one 'of the main reasons for continued recognition was the hope that the French Navy would not fall into the hands of the Nazis, but he strongly suspected that some units Avere already in German hands. Mr Edge added that the detention of M. Herriot particularly shocked him.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 306, 8 October 1942, Page 3
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