NAZI WEAKNESS APPARENT
FEVERED SEARCH FOR FRIENDS SPIRIT OF FRANCE STILL STRONG (United Press Association.—Copyright.— Rec. 11 a.m.)
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 25.
Commenting on the meetings of Hitler, Marshal Petain, and General Franco, the Daily Telegraph says signs multiply of the ac ute embarrassment that has beset Hitler since he realised the hopelessness of his plans for the conquest of Britain by a frontal assault, and this week there has been witnessed a fevered search, if not for new friends, at any rate for . exterisive new facilities.
, The Yichy Government, states the Telegraph, cannot ride roughshod over French public opinion either in France or the colonies, where a declaration of war on Britain would almost certainly produce an avalanche in favour of General de Gaulle.
It is fairly certain that neither Vichy nor the French people would allow M. Laval to betray the honour and future of France for. the few shekels, which Germany would steal back as soon as Britain was out of the way.
The paper regards Hitler's parleys with M. Laval and General Franco as a mark of weakness—not strength.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 281, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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