DID NOT RESIGN
Former French President LONDON, May 29.
M. Lebrun, former President of the French Republic, declared that he never tendered his resignation to the Bordeaux Government when France collapsed in 1940, according to the newspaper “France Libre.” M. Lebrun said: “I was always a faithful servant of the constitution and would have considered obedience
to Laval’s orders as an act of-desertion. I was spirited off by Marshal Petain.' M. Lebrun has been in Paris four days but he has not resumed his occupation of the President’s residence. The Gestapo arrested and interned him in the Bavarian Tyrol in August, 1943, and he was repatriated shortly after on the grounds of ill-health.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 5
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113DID NOT RESIGN Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 5
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