FRENCH NOW UNIFIED
U.S. POLICY JUSTIFIED
CHANGE IN MARTINIQUE
(11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON. July 16. President Roosevelt, at a press conference to-day, in defending the United States policy towards I ranee. Expressed satisfaction at the fact that all elements of the French Empne had 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 possessions and said: “We wanted them out and got what we 'hoped to get in the beginning.” . , . The United States had wanted to avoid bloodshed. Admiral Robert hacl 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 Rob.ert, but the policy of waiting proved to be the best and resulted in the unity, of Frenchmen the world over During the whole time the LTnited States had kept meticulously aloof from political involvements.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 4
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