FRENCH CONSUL IN SYDNEY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 2

FRENCH CONSUL IN SYDNEY

Deposition Approved

SYDNEY, December 21

In an editorial headed, “At Last! We Can Breathe!” the current issue of the official de Gaulle newspaper iu Australia, "Courier Australieu,” says: “The deposition of M. Tremoulet by the Australian Government from his functions as Consul-General for France is, from the French point, of view, one of the three facts of importance that marked this week. “For many long months the atmosphere in Australia appeared to all Frenchmen as if it were poisoned and unbreatheable. The air is now light and sound and breathcable. “Without In the least losing sight of our principle of avoiding at all costs polemics of a personal or political character, the specialty of so many French papers, we cannot allow this event, to pass without a few explanations to those who were unable to follow the trend of affairs, the logical outcome of which was the dismissal of M. Tremoulet.”

The article alleges that, since his arrival in Australia, M. Tremoulet has “succeeded in quarrelling with nearly every Frenchman, and with many Australians, some of whom held influential positions, to say nothing of our friends and allies, the Belgians in particular. M. Tremoulet could not, or would not, forget his personal opinions and preferences in order to fill his task.”