PETAIN’S APPEAL
FRANCE’S YEAR OF RESURRECTION “WORKERS’ LOT WILL BE HARD” MAKING UP THE LOSSES [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) : (Received 2nd Jan., 1 1.33 a.m.) LONDON, Ist January. Marshal Petain, in a New Year’s Eve broadcast, said that 1941 must be France’s year of resurrection. “We shall have hun- : ger because the war has robbed us of a great part of our crops and the blockade is depriving us ,of overseas food supplies which before the war amounted to six 'million tons annually. 1 appeal to • French ingenuity to improvise means of making up the losses. Peasants must drag from the soil everything it contains. “The workers’ lot will be hard. Stocks of raw materials are dwindling and some industries are iin danger of coming to a complete standstill. I promise to recognise neither party nor class. I appeal to you to get out of social grooves, ruts and prejudices and ! discard rancour and mistrust. ”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 January 1941, Page 6
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154PETAIN’S APPEAL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 January 1941, Page 6
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