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BRITAIN AND FRANCE RESISTING. AGGRESSION MESSAGE OF LEBRUN REPLY TO THE KING (British OBlcial Wireless.) Reed. 1.15 p.m. r RUGBY, Sept. 5. In answer to the message' dispatched yesterday, the King has received the following reply from the President of France, M. Lebrun: — “I thank you for the message you have been so kind to send me at this solermi' occasion in the destiny of our tlvo countries," united once more in defence of their honour and freedom. “The British people are making ready, as they did 25 years ago in the reign of your august father, to engage side by side with the French people in the most < noble undertakingresistance to One of the most hateful acts of aggression recorded in history. In the name of France, 1 salute <thc British people with emotion. “The ideal which inspires France and Britain and their confidence in the strength of their union will make them invincible.” The Premier of France, M. Daladier, in thanking Mr. Neville Chamberlain for his moving message, says: “Our two nations know they have done everything to preserve peace. They have resolved, after the aggression so brutal and unjust of which Poland was the victim, to associate their efforts fraternally until victory is ours.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 6
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