DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23974, 15 June 1943, Page 5

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD

Discussions not yet r RESUMED COMMUNIST DEPUTIES (Rec ASK FOR action TheL P u"-’ . l-ONDON, June 13 bet\vpn n bLC , n n,J furthor meeting eral GiranH 110 * 1 ? 1 cl! ,' Gaulle ilnd GcnIn contael U «'-. lcu ? 1 both have been Pren ch r„'‘’ll othcr members of the ‘‘on? DaS?^t ni V ee^ of Natiollal LiberaThrep rt arfi- a -’ y GrnGral Catroux. c ommiHo= u ltlonal members of the Ctlnl arrived at Algiers’! are Pleven, M.! Member Mp d M Tixier. Another America * 3onnel - ‘ s 011 I,is v -’ a J" from have c °mmunist Deputies who is sued b a e ptp r ( e oascd from Prison have a «s conrfi at - emL,, . u uncasi"’ants K; deadlock. “France People ha? S ’ k hey say - " Tlu ‘ French Power !L e had cnoll ßh of personal ti 0 lnn r , autocl ’ ac ”' :| nd tvrannv. Tliev a reS want a li'eln-eV, They wa.it s * r Uctpri C ? rejuvenated, bolter conlic p* and mo ''e democratic repubil is P £pL: w s ° od mimo of France into dp S p B J 0 translate in.mcdiatelv ' by thp s s °lcmn promises made. Re i c , om miUce.” It hsrL 5 4'®l ers eorrespondent says difficult for the outer world to I

realise how secluded Algiers is. It must be remembered, he adds, that Ppoplo of Algiers generally are entirely ignorant of world opinion, inc atmosphere resembles the complacenc'v in which France lived early ini IJ-tl). Press censorship, to which vas attributed much of the blame for the downfall of France, continues in Algiers. Blank spaces in the newspapers are filled up with drawings. Ine censors, who are often the same as those uncir-r the Vichy regime, continue to follow the same principles. i\ot a line of the world press and not a single dispa’ch sent by British and American correspondents is reproduced. The Algiers public lives in a news vacuum and has no idea of the feeling aroused abroad by Vichy’s subservience to Hitler, Router s correspondent continues: 'One unsatisfactory feature of the present position is that as far as can be ascertained no sanctions have been taken against men who have been engaged in anti-Allied activities. They nave apparently returned to the army and continue to draw their pay. General Bergcret, who was relieved of his command as a result of anti-Allied activities, draws his pay as a general, vl, Peyrnuiiin lias asked fo rejoin the army as a captain, and no one has raised objections," Russian Loan Oversubscribed.—The Moscow radio says that a second State milliard roubles (about £480.000.000) closed in seven days with 2 o o ni" , iil ard roub] es subscribed (about £800,000,000).—London, June 13.