FREE FRENCH VIEWPOINT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 119, 20 April 1942, Page 5

FREE FRENCH VIEWPOINT

HITLER'S GAME. RUGBY, April IS

The French Government changes? leave four key posts in Laval's hands, as ho holds all-important portfolios. The Free French leader, General do Gaulle expressed the general opinion prevailing bore when he said in a broadcast to the French nation night; that the new Government was just anothtr stage in the game Hitler started playing against France and the world in June, 1940. "Apparently," said General de Gaulle, "Hitler has decreed certain transfers and promotions among the Vichy traitors; We were expecting this formality. The position in which his armies are placed has

now led him to strengthen the guarantees lie received some months ago from unworthy military and political leaders regarding our territory, fleet and empire He" now thinks fit to have recourse to men who are still more obviously unworthy." .... ~ After vehemently criticising the Vichy leaders, General de Gaulle concluded: "To-day the duty of all French men and women is exactly Hie same as yesterday, but more obvious. It is to struggle actively by every possible means both against the enemy himself, and against the men of Vichy, who are the enemy's accomplice. Hie French people have begun to show bow and why Hitler was mistaken concerning them. We believe they will continue this demonstration. Hitler may be beaten because he thought he could dispose of France."—Official Wireless.