French Tribute To Britain
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30. The French Prime Minister (Mr Mendes-France) declared in an exclusive interview: ‘‘Britain’s undertaking to keep a powerful force on the Continent of Europe and even more, perhaps, the conditions on which this undertaking has been given, constitute an essential contribution to the indispensible effort needed to establish confidence and security in Europe and hence to maintain peace. Britain’s participation has now been brought to the great task of European construction and unification—the absence of
which so seriously compromised previous attempts. “It is a decision worthy of those great resolutions which Great Britain has known how to take in the past. All free peoples of Continental Europe will be grateful to her.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 7
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