BRITISH PRIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5

BRITISH PRIDE

SOLIDARITY OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.

RUGBY, October 31

"Hitler is constantly looking at his appalling casualty lists, which are mounting up day by day. and on the other side he witnesses the mobilsar Lion of the-vast man-power and. pro, duction of the United Nations. This worries him, and he looks round: and tries to put pressure on you to make up the man-power he is losing," declared the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin. broadcasting to the French workers.

He congratulated them on their resistance to the Nazi efforts, abetted by Vichy, to compel them to go to Germany. The fact that the Germans were claiming to mobilise the European workers was based upon the arrogant assumption that the workers were already slaves, said Mr. Bevin, but the workers of the occupied countries did- not regard themselves as being at Germany's disposal. In their hearts all these men and women looked for the day when the enemy would be defeated and liberty reestablished, •'■ ' ■'■'"'' '•"

"Workers of France, we are proud of your resistance," said Mr. Bevin. "We are glad to see that in the great workers' centres you have maintained, in face of intense opposition and pressure, the great spirit of liberty that actuates free people throughout- the world. We are proud that the workers of the so-called free zone 'are at one with the comrades of the occupied zone in placing every obstacle in the way of the enemy.

"We shall never forget the solidarity which has been shown by our French comrades at this great moment."—B.O.W.