FRENCH NORTH AFRICA
WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR GENERAL OE GAULLE
LONDON. September 20
Reports reaching Madrid from Morocco indicate that there is tense ex--peetancy through French North Africa, where a decision to accept the offer of British protection is expected daily. The Madrid correspondent of the ‘ Daily Express ’ says that Genera] Verget, the newly-appointed French Resi-dent-General in North Africa, is having great difficulty in handling the situation. There have been wholesale arrests of army officers and civil servants, which have apparently been carried out reluctantly in the face of popular opposition and widespread sympathy for General dc Gaulle.
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Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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97FRENCH NORTH AFRICA Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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