NAZI HOPES
FOR VICHY FLEET BLOCKED
Reports from France disclose that "the danger of the French Fleet being turned over to the Germans is now very slight," stated a writer in a recent issue of P.M. After confirming previous reports that the rank and lile of the French Navy is violently anti-German and pro-British, he continued: '"The real reason Admiral Darlan has been unable to make any progress in his desire to give the Fleet to the Nazis is that the French officers have informed him they cannot move the ships against the wishes of the crews. Most of the sailors had some coin ncction in civil life with French labour unions—the most militant unions in the world. Many of them are Socialists, and all of them arc strongly pro-Russian. Being of peasant stock or working classes, they are more pro-American than their officers who conic from the money classes and greedy bourgeoisie of
F ranee."
The writer added that Darlan's: inability to swing the French Fleet may cost the French admiral his job as Vieo-Prcmier; "Darlan's • usefulness to the Nazis is at an end. He was built up by the Nazis solely because they hoped to use his 1 hatred of England to gain control of the French Fleet."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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210NAZI HOPES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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