“WE SHALL FIGHT”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 7

“WE SHALL FIGHT”

UNDYING COURAGE. M. REYNAUD’S MESSAGE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 14, 9.43 a.m. RUGBY, .June 13. In a message to President Roosevelt expressing gratitude for the generoits American aid now being given in aviation and armaments, the French Prime Minister (M. Reynaud) says: “Eor the lasGsix days and six nights our divisions have been fighting without respite against am army which disposes crushing superiority of effectives and material. “The enemy to day is almost at the gates of Paris. We shall fight in front of Paris. We shall fight behind Paris. “We will shut ourselves up in one of our provinces. If we are chased from there, we will go to Northern Africa and—if we must—to our possessions in America.” “At the moment when I speak, another dictatorship lias struck France in the back and a new frontier is menaced,” added the Premier. “A naval battle is about to begin. “It is my duty to ask you for new and even wider help. I beg you publicly to accord to the Allies moral and material aid by all means except the despatch of an expeditionary force.” EFFECTIVE REPLY. IN PRESIDENT’S SPEECH. Received June 14. 10.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 13. The President’s private secretary (Mr S. Early) said President Roosevelt’s speech on Monday completely answered M. Reynaud’s request, which was delivered i.n the State Department after Mr Roosevelt’s return from Charlotteville. Thus it was only a coinc7idence that the address was 60 inmpletely to the point. Mr William Green (President of the American Federation of Labour) said : “We demand that the United States Government give the Allies all the help they need even though materials are shipped without compensation. If Hitler wins, America will join Canada against Germany.” He added that Labour would avoid strikes. Urging quick action -in support of the Allies. 110 prominent Americans resident in England have sent a long cable message to President Roosevelt. Referring to Italy’s entry into the war, the Mayor of New York (Mr La Guardia) said in a speech at the World’s Fair: “If the Italian people had a voice in the Government of the country the Italian Ambassador would be present to-day and in his glory. Instead. he is absent and ashamed. The newspaper Ultimas Noticias renews the speculation that Mexico and Britain are discussing the resumption of discussion - for an oil settlement (says a report from Mexico City). It says the Briti6.li Ambassador at Wa6hington (Lord Lothian) and I)r. H. Najera (Mexican Ambassador in the United States) are discussing the question. It attributes the weakness or the dollar to the imminence of an agreement. However, British sources deny the report. . A message from Quito says it is semi-officially stated that Ecuador is severing contact with the Italian military mission that has lxien quartered there for the last 15 rears and is replacing it with a United States mission. ■ , The Argentine Government has issued a decree prohibiting Argentine vessels from navigating in European It is reported from Montevideo that the German Minister (Herr Langinan) has informed the Foreign Office that he was dissolving Nazi organisations in Uruguay, also the German Work; ers’ Union ar a lesult of anti-Nazi legislation and demonstrations.