FRENCH FORCES IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 4

FRENCH FORCES IN U.S.

COMBINED PARADE IN WASHINGTON (8.0. W.) RUGBY, May 9. The former United States Ambassador to France (Mr William C. Bullitt) spoke to-day. at the Joan of Arc celebrations in Washington, w'hich marked the first joint public demonstration of Fighting French and Giraud representatives. The meeting followed a parade in which 1000 French sailors from the warships. Richelieu and Montcalm, and Fighting French soldiers from the Antilles participated. Representatives of the British Embassy, De Gaulle, and Giraud groups, and the United States Army and Navy attended.

"The fingers of the Germans are still at the throat of the French people, "but the soul of France is free,” said Mr Bullitt. “That the forces of General de Gaulle and General Giraud—their military, intellectual, and spiritual forces—should unite in one single indivisible French force, is the prayer of all Americans, De Gaullist and Giraudist are honourable names, but there is a name more noble and more glorious—the simple name of Frenchman.”