PETAIN’S ATTITUDE TO GERMANY
OPPOSITION TO PLANS REPORTED LONDON. March 14. The Lisbon correspondent of the British United Press reports that Goering told Marshal Petain last December that Japan intended to enter the war. Marshal Petain flatly refused to be associated with Goering’s plans to create an impression of European continental solidarity against Britain and America. The correspondent says that Marshal Petain told a delegation of influential Frenchmen who were anxious to maintain relations with America that he would retire before he took the initiative in bringing about a break between France and America, Admiral Darlan secretly agreed with the Germans to hand over 5000 tons of oil and petrol to the Germans in North Africa from French military stores, but Marshal Petain learned of the proposal and intervened, the correspondent adds. Marshal Petain did not have a single newspaper in France prepared to take his part against the Germans. He has opened 12 Petain propaganda offices in occupied France.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23588, 16 March 1942, Page 6
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