THE FRENCH PEOPLE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4464, 15 August 1941, Page 7

THE FRENCH PEOPLE

“MOST OF TWO WORLDS.” « “A frank word needs saying to the French people. Many of them think to make the most of both worlds. They fancy they can run with the hare and hunt with the houndsi Should Germany win, they look to Laval and Darlan to put them right with the victors. Should Great Britain win, they expect similar profit from General de Gaulle. Now there are limits to the feasibility of this. When France made her separate armistice last year, and went out of the war in breach of her treaty with Great Britain, she fell conspicuously below the standard of conduct which she herself expected and experienced from Poland, Norway, Holland, and Belgium. Great Britain, however, had too much pity for her to reproach her; deserted and left alone to face the terrible foe, she never wavered in her resolve to save not only herself, but her fallen ally. And saving meant not only driving out the Germans, but healing the stricken country and raising it to its feet, financially and otherwise. This latter service she will not be able to render if France, by deliberate action of her Government, prolongs the war and immensely enhances the loss and damage suffered by Great Britain herself. It may be doubted whether the United States will be disposed to render it either.”—“Scrutator,” in the “Sunday Times,” London,