FAITHFUL TO MEMORY
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 24. The difficulty of remaining faithful to the memory of Napoleon and loyal to the Vichy Government compelled Georges C. Ollin and his wife, the only two French citizens living in the Domain of Napoleon on St. Helena, to write to General de Gaulle explaining their plight. The result was that a Fighting French ship called at tho island recently and the captain and crew planted a willow tree near the Emperor’s grave and hoisted the Tricolour, with the Cross of Lorraine, over his tomb. Although the property was vested by Queen Victoria in Napoleon’s heirs its maintenance was taken over by tho Third Republic, and since June, 1940, Ollin had been tinder the pay of Vichy. In a letter to General do Gaulle he emphasised the humiliation in maintaining contact with the traitors who had trampled on the honour of France.
Now the French National Committee has assumed the responsibility for the grave’s unkeep.—Official "Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 5
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