ror ana lies which they borrowed from their masters, but ever take advantage of their military servitude and actually set up against us a living barrier of some professional troops. A shudder of horror ran through the world at the news that the men of Vichy were making Empire soldiers fight against us and our allies in conjunction with German squadrons for the purpose of maintaining a bridgehead in the Levant for the Fuhrer’s forces. Such a treacherous scheme bears Hitler’s own hallmark. It is typical of his devilish genius to make use, in this war of his, of the degradation of others. We need hardly say nothing could do more to strengthen the Free French in their determination to wrest their country from bls grip and fight with all their might by the side of those who have sworn to break him. At the present moment our soldiers, sailors and airmen are giving glorious proof of this before Damascus, in Chad, in Libya and in Abyssinia, as well as on every sea and In every sky."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21994, 20 June 1941, Page 5
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