FRENCH COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 7

FRENCH COMMITTEE

Provisional Government As New Title DARLAN PACT REPUDIATED (By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received May 16, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 15. The French Consultative Assembly in Algiers has unanimously agreed to rename the Freueli Committee ot National Liberation "the ITovisiolial Government of France.” It also unanimously passed a vote of confidence in General ue Gaulle and the Provisional Government. General de Gaulle told the Assembly that France did not consider herself bound by the agreement between Admiral Darlan aud tlie American General Clark, which gave the Allies fur-reaching control of ports and communications in North Alriea. The renaming of the Committee aud the repudiation of the Darlan-Clark agreement may have international complications. The Algiers correspondent of "The Times” says that the renaming resolution was not debated. The proposer simply argued that the previous title no longer corresponded with the sentiments expressed by the French people inside and outside France, and that the new title was in conformity with what the French forces and the French Empire represented in the United Nations' war effort. Vice-Admiral Derrleu has refused to appeal against the sentence of life imprisonment for the surrender of Bizeria aud units of the French Fleet to the Germans, on the ground that an appeal would only be delaying action, says Reuter's Algiers correspondent.