FOR FRENCH UNITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 61, 15 March 1943, Page 3

FOR FRENCH UNITY

MEMORANDUM OUTLINES FOUR-POINT PLAN Recd. 10.45 p.m. London, March 14 The French National Committee disclosed that it sent to General Girard at the end of February a comprehensive four-point plan for complete French unity. The memorandum was published on the eve of what was' described as an important broadcast by General Giraud from Algiers. The memorandum calls for the unification of France's resistant forces under the direction of one provisional central organisation embracing all shades of French anti-Axis opinion, with a complementary representative council of resistance. The National Committee says such a council Auld be formed by delegates mandated from metropolitan France, from the fighting elements, from Parliamentarians who have not collaborated with the Germans, from the legislatures of the liberated territories, and from economic, trade unionist and university groups in the Empire. The memorandum outlines the conditions under which unity is possible: (1) The so-called armistice concluded against France muse be regarded as null and void in French North and West Africa. The impossibility must also be recognised of leaving in the principal posts men who were largely responsible for the capitulation of France and collaboration with the enemy; (2) All French territories as they are liberated must have their fundamental liberties restored, and all citizens detained in violation thereof must be freed; (3) Republican legality must be re-established; (4) The establishment of a French postwar constitution must be through the free expression of popular will.