SALUTE TO FRANCE

Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5

SALUTE TO FRANCE

MR NASH'S TRIBUTE MUST TAKE FULL PART IN WORLD AFFAIRS (N.Z.P.A Special Correspondent.) LONDON, April 28. France had many disabilities and had suffered many disasters, but the France that produced Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Dumas, Balzac, Zola, the Curies, and Pasteur could never die, said Mr Walter Nash, speaking at a reception given in Lyons by M. Herriot to delegates to the International Trade Conference, during a two-day tour of France. It was sometimes difficult, Mr Nash said, for people outside France to understand French politics, because there were so many parties. I3ut though we thought French politics difficult today, he felt that they would recover iu the future. “ Witli regard to a world of sovereignties ..lid government,” said Mr Nash, “.I would like to emphasise that there is no room for the domination of any one people ,by any one race of people, by any one nation or by any one class, or of any nation by any one person. Domination cannot succeed and coercion cannot win. It is freedom and persuasion that will take us by consent to the goal that we have been striving for during the past years and towards which France made such a great contribution. We who come from Geneva salute France, and say that the world requires France.