BRITISH CRITICISM
PROTEST BY BORDEAUX GOVERNMENT ALLEGED INJUSTICE. GENERAL DUVAL’S BLUNT DECLARATION. By Telegrapn—Press Association —Copyright. BORDEAUX, June 25. A statement issued on behalf of the French Government claims that , M. Mandel, Minister in the Reynaud Government who made a visit to England, is partly to blame for the “present British failure” to understand the armistice. It is alleged that M. Mandel tried to make Britain insist that France should continue the war at all costs. “We regret that certain members of the British Government should criticise us unjustly,” the statement says. “We wish that our English friends will respect our sadness and examine their own conscience.” The statement adds that while France kept men ged 48 fighting, Britain had not mobilised her men aged 28. A French Press delegation which went to Britain last March found the English unruffled and conducting their traditional form of warfare. General Duval, in an article in “Le Jour,” said: “The Fifth Column beat France. The Germans did not defeat us, but the agents of treason who were sent to France.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1940, Page 5
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