FARCE AT VICHY.
TRIAL CONDEMNED
DE GAULLE’S COMMENT
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 9
Describing the Vichy trial as having been deliberately engineered, General de Gaulle, in a broadcast, said the Vichy Government, acting under Hitler’s horsewhip and Mussolini’s lash, had the task, of convincing the world that France did wrong to enter the war.
To this so-called Government people were criminals who believed that France was threatened or thought that France should fight, as also were those who resisted this dishonourable temptation of selling themselves into slavery without even drawing the sword. “Though in the whole world,” General de Gaulle continued, “from Gibraltar to Kamchatka, from the Magellan to the Behring Straits, not a single person seriously doubts that those responsible for the war are the dictators in Berlin and Borne, yet a monstrous trial has bce-i started in France against Frenchmen, who are being prosecuted for this offence, This is a truly magnificent achievement, magnificent, let me hasten to add, for The enemy.” One day, General de Gaulle said in conclusion, without doubt there would be a real trial of the guilty party. There was every reason to believe that many of those" now prosecuting would then' be in the dock.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 7
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203FARCE AT VICHY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 7
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