GENERAL GIRAUD
PLEDGE OF FIDELITY TO PETAIN (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. According to Vichy reports, General Giraud, who recently escaped from Germany, is understood to have signed a pledge of fidelity to Marshal Petain, declaring that he will not rally to General de Gaulle, but refusing to pledge not to take up arms against the Germans. General Giraud received thousands of letters from reserve French officers agreeing to follow his leadership if he begins a crusade for France's liberation.
The reports add that General Giraud offered to return to Koeningstein if the Germans released all married French prisoners, but Herr Otto Abetz, the German Ambassador to Paris, refused.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24912, 11 May 1942, Page 5
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