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GENERAL GIRAUp’S PREDICTION.
END IN TUNISIA THIS MONTH VIEWS ON POST-WAR FRANCE (N.Z. Press Association—Copy right.) (Rec. 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 2. In a speech at Algiers General Giraud declared: “The Tunisian battle will be finished this month. I believe ’the war against Germany will be finished in 1944.” General Giraud paid a glowing tribute to the French Army’s work in North Africa. He pointed out it was insufficiently equipped. From November 15 to December 15 it had stood firm at a time when the Italians and Germans had landed 100,000 men in Tunisia.
Outlining the features of post-war France General Giraud indicated that a measure of social reform would *eplace the out-moded capitalistic system with “a state of participation” between all classes of the nation France would endeavour to achieve a system of minimum wages and allround improvement in social conditions inside a framework characterised by a complete absence of dictatorship principles. Drawing a pre-war comparison the General pointed out that in 1937 the Germans produced 100 tanks a month compared with France’s four.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 172, 3 May 1943, Page 3
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