UNION JACK IN FRENCH PARADE
GENERAL DE GAULLE ANNOYED CLOSING OF BRITISH HOSPITAL ORDERED London, June 24. Angered by the* sight of Union Jacks on the cars of the Hadfield-Spears mobile hospital unit which participated in a French forces parade in Paris this week General de Gaulle ordered the immediate closing of the hospital, according to Lady Spears. The unit worked with Free French forces in five campaigns in Syria, Libya, North Africa, Italy and France. “General de Gaulle when he caught sight of the British flag summoned General Koenig and having heard who we were who di.red to fly the British flag in an allFrench parade instructed the War Minister to close our hospital within three days and repatriate all British members immediately,” she said.
Lady Spears, who is the novelist Mary Borden, is t v e wife of MajorGeneral Sir Edward Spears, formerly British Minister to Syria and the Lebanon.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 25 June 1945, Page 5
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