France Silently Supports de Gaulle
FREE FRENCH COMMANDANT’S VIEW United Press Association—By Eleetrto Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 11.50 p.m. SYDNEY, May X. Commandant Gustav Jardin, commander of the Free French forces in the Pacific, has arrived in Sydney after a four months’ tour of the French Cameroons. He is on his way to Noumea to take command and consolidate all Free French fighting men in the Pacific islands. Interviewed, he said he believed between 80 and 90 per cent, of the French people in occupied and unoccupied France are silently behiud de Ganlle and sympathetic with the British causa. Commandant Jardin has been singled out for “special mention’’ in tbe blanket death sentence imposed by Vichy on the Free French forces.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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