FRANCE’S SACRIFICES

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1944, Page 3

FRANCE’S SACRIFICES

Not Recognised AT QUEBEC CONFERENCE Te Quebec Conference has caused The Quebec Confertnce has caused more than a sense of disappointment in Paris; it has left a bitter taste in French mouths, says the New Yora “Times’s” correspondent, Mr. Harold Callender. The French thought that France’s entry into the European Advisory Council, as the sign of her resumption at the position of a Great Power, would have formally been consummated at Quebec. It.was taken for granted that what the French has done in the past few years on the fighting fronts in ItalyFrance, and the units behind the new de Gaulle Government had more than proven France’s right to a place among the Great Powers. A statement made by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee Mr. T. Connally at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, that France had been defeated, and that it must demonstrate her right to a seat in tne Council of future international . organisation.' came as a shock. If it is a question of measuring M° oc * against blood, the French contend, that the final statistics will show that their losses in life from the occupation and the war are’comparable with those of Britain. Consequently th e French are puzzled, as well as shocked, to learn that the Allies ao net yet acknowledge diplomatically that France has won her battle, not only against the Germans but against the humiliation of defeat They feel that the Allies are not treating France fairly. LONDON, Sept 18 Mr. Eden has returned to Britain from the Quebec conference to which he flew five days ago. OTTAWA, September 17. Two French Canadians, Major Gernaey and Sergeant-Major Courture, have received the British hm.pire Medal for guarding secret documents, found after the first Quebec Conference. Military authorities said the documents, which gave a clue to the date of the European invasion, were discovered by Serge-ant-Major Courture under a book in the Chateau library. He handed them to his senior officer, Major Gernaey, who took, prompt and appropriate action to inform Washington.