VICHY HOSTAGES
FREE FRENCH INTERNEES BRITONS’ RELEASE SOUGHT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 19. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, answering a question in the House of Commons regarding the reason for the internment in Syria of seven French citizens for which action the Vichy Government had interned 14 Englishmen, said the French citizens were interned in Syria by the Free French as hostages for an equal number of Frenchmen who were sent by-the Vichy authorities from Syria to France before the Syrian armistice because they wished to jom the Free French movement. While the negotiations were still in progress the Vichy Government arrested 14 British subever the outcome of the negotiations which were continuing, the release of the Vichy citizens in Syria was contingent upon the simultaneous' release of the British subjects in France.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20619, 21 November 1941, Page 7
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