REJECTED BY AMERICA
LAVAL'S PROTEST AGAINST BOMBINGS WASHINGTON, September 8. Tbe State Department announced that the United States rejected the Vichy Government’s protest against the bombing of towns in occupied Franco. M. L aval protested to the American Charge d’Affaires complaining that in the bombing of Le Havre and Rouen a number of persons were killed and wounded. The United States representative immediately replied that American squadrons bombed military plants in the employ of Germany. Americans did not desire French people to suffer any more than could be avoided, since they had already suffered incalculably under German occupation. A State Department representative said that M. Lava! must be assured that military plants operated by and for Germany and other German military properties in France will be bombed at every opportunity in the future.
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Evening Star, Issue 24296, 10 September 1942, Page 6
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133REJECTED BY AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 24296, 10 September 1942, Page 6
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