FRENCH WARSHIPS
STATEMENT BY M. BAUDOUIN
LONDON, September 20
A message from Vichy says that the Foreign Minister (M. Baudouin) said that Britain had been notified before the sis French warships left the Mediterranean on September 14 for Dakar, The warships passed Gibraltar without a single gun being fired on them, and not the slightest attempt was made to impede their passage. M. Baudouin said that the mission of the warships was to support the preservation of the French Empire against the British effort to provoke dissidence. France would employ all the force permissible under the armistice to assure the integrity of her colonial empire against provocations. France, M. Baudouin said, would reach a military, political, and economic agreement with Japan preserving French sovereignty, but giving Japan privileges. He added that France owed loyalty to her former enemies besides scrupulous execution of the armistice, which was drafted honourably.
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Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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148FRENCH WARSHIPS Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 12
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