DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23975, 16 June 1943, Page 3

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD

“THE TIMES” COMMENTS ON RUPTURE (8.0. W.) RUGBY. June 14. Commenting on reports from Algiers of new ruptures in the French Committee of National Liberation, ‘‘The Times” observes: “They need not perhaps be taken too tragically. They appear to arise partly from real difficulties of fusion of two military organ, isations which hitherto have had nothing in common save their desire to contribute to victory over the Axis, and partly from personal rivalries and angularities which are not the less important because they are intangible.” Discussing the attitude to be adopted to the committee by the United Nations, “The Times” suggests that three conditions should determine it. “The first is that nothing should be done which may seem to anticipate the eventual judgment of the great mass of French citizens,” it says. “The second is that the supreme authority and freedom of action of the joint military command of the United Nations should be fully maintained in all territories where operations have been or may be undertaken. The third is that any decision relating to the status of the committee should be the joint decision of Britain, the United States, and Russia, since experience has demonstrated the serious inconveniences which may arise from discrepancies oi policy between Britain and the United States or Britain and Russia on issues of this kind.” MEN SMUGGLED FROM FRANCE GERMAN ALLEGATION LONDON, June 14. Organised smuggling of Frenchmen across the Pyrenees is reported by Goebbels’s newspaper “Das Reich,” ,tays the correspondent of “The Times” on the German frontier. It admits that since the summer of 1940 more than 40,000 able-bodied Frenchmen of military age. which is double the strength of the Spanish Eastern Front Volunteer Corps, have fled across the mountains into Spain where, the article alleges. British and American organisations provide them with forged passports and ample funds, enabling them to reach the Fighting French forces. The article continues; “British and American organisations in Madrid work openly and systematically. One hundred or more fugitives daily present themselves at British and American frontier stations, give the password, and receive forged papers and funds. They do not stay long in Spain and they usually take a direct route overseas via Portugal.” enemy schooner BOMBED ATTACK IN AEGEAN SEA <R £ c ’ j 1 LONDON, June 15. s Bast communique *ays that long-range fighters of the Royal Air Force attacked an enemy schooner in the Aegean Sea yesterday scoring many hits and leaving the ves.SwSed 1 " 5 amidsJlips ’ AU the aircraft