M. REYNAUD’S CONDITION
5 A MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT RESISTANCE TO DICTATORS i (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-ht) LONDON, July 5 A message from Clermont-Ferrand says M. Reynaud, Prime Minister of France until Marshal Petain took office, is improving. How M. Reynaud was recently injured in a motor accident is as much a mystery, says the former Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, as how Air Marshal Balbo, > of Italy, lost his life in an aeroplane. “ The circumstantial account of the accident given by the Havas News Agency suggests/’ says the correso pondent, “ that M. Reynaud actually g has been injured, but that this should h have happened just now seems - almost supernatural/’ He recalls motor and other “ accii) dents ” in which prominent men on y I the Nazi “ black list ” haVe been in>s I volvcd in recent years, it * M. Reynaud stood for uncomprom - ising resistance to the Axis.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21159, 8 July 1940, Page 8
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