INTRIGUE IN EUROPE
PRESSURE ON PETAIN London, March 14. The British United Press correspondent at Lisbon reports that Goering told Marshal Petain last Decembe that Japan intended to enter th*: war. Petain flatly refused to be associated with Goering’s plans to create the impression of European Continental solidarity against Britain am: America. Petain told a delegation of influential Frenchmen who were anxious tv maintain relations with America tha* he would retire before he took the initiative in bringing about a break between France and America. Admiral Darlan secretly agreed with the Germans to hand over 5001 tuns of oii and petrol to the Germans in North Africa from the Frencl: military stores, but Petain learned of the proposal and intervened. Petain did not have a single paper in France prepared to take his part against tnu Germans. Hu opened twelve Petain propaganda offices in occupied France.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5
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