ANTI-SEMETISM

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4523, 14 January 1942, Page 6

ANTI-SEMETISM

FAMILIES IMPOVERISHED “From the beginning the French navy and the Nazis had two traits in common; their anti-Semitism and a bitter hatred for the capitalist system of the banks, such as is often entertained by families impoverished through gambling on the market. Therefore, when the war broke out, the reaction of a great many : naval officers was that this war was not their war; the France which had undertaken it was not their France. It stood for all they detested. The tendencies of the army have been different. It is in the army, or rather in certain of its elements, that the most active sympathies for the De Gaulle movement are to be found. General Weygand’s attitude has been dictated by the exclusively military considerations. As soon as the armistice was concluded he, together with General Huntziger, began to work at the reconstruction of a future French force, neither of them being in the least concerned as ■<<> whether this force would be utilized against Germany or against England. Their sole purpose Was to forge the instrument. With this in mind, they undertook to build up an army—a smallish one, it is true—in the only corner of the world where it was possible for them to do it— North Africa. Two things could be written to General Weygand’s credit; his strong personal hostility toward Admiral Darlan; and his desire to preserve a maximum of independence for North Africa in order to pursue there his work of military reconstruction.” From an article from the New York “Herald Tribune” by a French scientist recently arrived in the U.S.A., his name being withheld because his family is still in France.