HARDSHIP AHEAD
PETAIN'S WARNING
APPEAL TO FRENCH PEOPLE
TO WORK IN UNITY
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received January 2, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, January 1
'Marshal Petain, in a broadcast on New Year's Eve, said that 1941 must be France's year" of resurrection.
"We shall have hunger, because the war has robbed us of a great part of the crops, and the blockade is depriving us of overseas food supplies, which before the war amounted to 6,000,000 tons a year. I appeal to French ingenuity to improvise means of making up the losses. The peasants must drag from the soil everything it contains.
"The workers' lot will be hard. Stocks of raw materials are dwindling and some industries are in danger of coming to a complete standstill. "I promise to recognise neither party nor class. I appeal to you to get out of social grooves, ruts, and prejudices, and to discard rancour and mistrust."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7
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