AMERICA AND FRANCE
POLICY PROVES SUCCESSFUL RUGBY, July 16. President Roosevelt, at a Press conference to-day, defending the United States policy towards France, expressed satisfaction at the fact that all the elements of the French Empire were now joined in the common cause of defeating Germany. He referred to the recent removal of Admiral .Robert from the governorship of the. French Caribbean and said:- "We wanted them out. and. got what we hoped to get in the beginning." The United States had wanted to avoid bloodshed, Mr Roosevelt stated, and Admiral ..Robert had had rather a difficult problem, to put it politely. Some groups, including the isolationists, wanted the United States to send a large battle fleet to wrest Martinique from Admiral Robert, but tho policy of waiting had proved the best, and had resulted in the unity of Frenchmen the world over. During the whole time the United States had kept meticulously aloof from political involvements.
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Evening Star, Issue 24920, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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157AMERICA AND FRANCE Evening Star, Issue 24920, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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