Vichy Has Long Been Helping Our Enemies
POSITION HAS BECOME FARCICAL
Received Thursday, 1.6 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 4.
In a leading article in reference to the interception of the French convoy the Daily Mail says: “Vichy has long been helping our enemies and doing its utmost to weaken our blockade. It is well known that about three hundred ships monthly sail between North Africa and French Mediterranean ports with war materials, 80 per cent, of which are handed to the Germans.
“Our retaliation has been so halfhearted that the traffic has been increasing. It has become farcical to differentiate between occupied and unoccupied France because the enemy controls both. The time will come when Britain must impose a real blockade on Vichy France in the interests of self defence.”
The Times, in a leader, says: ‘ The intention appears to be to trump Up a charge against Britain of increasing France’s miseries by depriving her of supplies, but Britain has just sanctioned the dispatch of a shipload of supplies ‘from America for Vichy France. Britain has turned a blind eye to supplies passing from the French Empire to Marseilles and Vichy is now presuming on this concession. * *
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 264, 6 November 1941, Page 5
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