VICHY PROTEST REJECTED
* • BOMBING OF OCCUPIED FRANCE (Rec. 8 p.m. ) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The United States has rejected the Vichy Government’s protest against the bombing of towns in occupied France. The State Department said Laval had protested to the American Charge d’Affaires complaining that in the bombings of Le Havre and Rouen a number of persons were killed and wounded. The United States representative immediately replied that American squadrons bombed military plants in the employ of Germany. Americans did not, desire the French people to suffer' any more than could be avoided, since they hhd already suffered incalculably under the German occupation. A State Department representative said Laval must be assured that military plants operated by and for Germany. and other German military properties' in France, will be bombed at every opportunity in future.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23739, 10 September 1942, Page 3
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