LANDINGS POSSIBLE
INVASION OF FRANCE GEN. GIRAUD’S OPINION (9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, July .115. “Germany is defeated. All that is left is for her to admit defeat,’’ declared General Giraud, co-Presidcnt of the French Committee of Liberation, addressing a press conference, "i want a strong French Army to march into France with the Allies to liberate my country and then into Germany to free all French prisoners,” he added.
“The present situation, is good, but Sicily is only the first part of the act in which the Canadians would have a greater part. 1 cannot predict when Germany and Japan will collapse, but Italy is already collapsing.” A reporter asked if the German defences on the French coast were so strong as to make an attack from the west impossible. General Giraud replied that while the defences would make a United Nations’ invasion more difficult, it was possible for Prance to be invaded from the west,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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