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HATE CAMPAIGN

VICHY CRIME SHEET ROOSEVELT ON TOP VICHY. June 15. President Roosevelt and the United States appear to be on the point of ousting Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Great Britain from the top of the list of "hates" of the weekly "Gringoire," a list which already includes Englishmen, Jews, Free Masons, Communists, Socialists, Republicans, Liberals, Democrats and pacifists. Following its bitter editorial attack on Mr. Roosevelt last week, this reactionary weekly, published at Marseilles, has on the front page of a recent issue a cartoon showing the American President consulting Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, French journalist, who is shown with cards spread out before her on a table. "La dame Tabouis," as "Gringoire," with its habitual crudeness, calls her, says, "I see America's victory if she enters the war." "Are you sure?" Mr. Roosevelt asks. To which Mme. Tabouis replies, "Mr. President, have I ever been wrong?" On an inside page a cartoon entitled "The Black Market" shows Uncle Sam and John Bull in consultation. The former asks, " —and the French colonies?" John Bull replies, "I give you them in exchange for your ships and aeroplanes." "Gringoire" complained that there, are not enough political prisoners in I France. It demanded that Yvon Del-1 bos and Joseph Paul-Boncour be sent to Bourassol to join Leon Blum. | Edouard Daladier and General Maurice Gamelin. (Blum, Daladier | and Paul-Boncour formerly were j Premiers and Gamelin was the j French generalissimo early in the; war. Delbos once was Foreign Minister.) j "When will the Foreign Ministers | who led France to disaster be held' to account?" it demanded. "Gringoire" further suggested I that Free Masons be compelled 101 wear armbands revealing their : former membership. It charges that they are conducting "a sly and in-1 sidious campaign against the Mar-, shal (Chief of State Marshal Henri \ Petain) and his Government," and j acting in the service of General; Charles de Gaulle, the Free French leader. , i This organ also attacked certain Catholic priests who. it said, have not endorsed the Franco-German col laboration policy, but have attacked it from the pulpit. Cnless those; criticisms cease, the weekly! threatens to publish the names of the priests.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 9

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HATE CAMPAIGN Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 9

HATE CAMPAIGN Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 9