GENERAL DE GAULLE RETURNS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21822, 27 November 1940, Page 5

GENERAL DE GAULLE RETURNS

Meeting With Prime Minister By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, November 25. The leader of the Free French people (General de Gaulle) has retur”<'d to London and has met the Prime Minister (Mr Churchill). General de Gaulle lef’ England in August and has been organising in French Equatorial Africa, the Cameroon.?, and Chad. He said the French people were beginning to realise the part they and their navy and their air force could have played in the war against Germany had they not been betrayed by the armistice. They were also beginning to realise the full meaning of the so-called new order in Europe. General de Gaulle’s headquarters issued a communique that General de Gaulle arrived and conferred with Mr Churchill, “after organising forces in equatorial Africa and the Cameroons and completing rallying of Gaon. General de Gaulle wanted to confer with the British Government on various political and military problems in connection with the conduct of the war.” General de Gaulle, broadcasting to France, declared: “With the Italian Army in Libya, Egypt and Abyssinia showing impotence, the British Air Forse is destroying Mussolini’s ships and the Italians are running before the Greeks. Frenchmen in victory for freedom you now realise the paramount importance of the part that the Empire’s air force which was intact at the Armistice would have played in Africa and Syria if it had not been sold to the enemy by the armistice betrayal. You now realise from experience the nature of the new European order, but the patriotic passion of the French people is growing. Cultivate it to hasten the day when justice will overtake our enemies and their Vichy friends.”