VICHY TREASON
TRANSFER OF PLANES . TO ENEMY
GENERAL DE GAULLE’S DENUNCIATION.
ENFORCED CAPITULATION OF COLONIES.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. August 23.
General de Gaulle. broadcasting throughout the world, said the Petain Government was bringing back 800 planes from the French African Empire and handing them over to the enemy.
One part which the Vichy leaders had to play for the enemy, he said, was to compel the capitulation of Frenchmen in the colonial empire who wished to fight on. Thus Hitler’s eagle and Mussolini's vulture could easily settle on Casablanca, Tunis, Chad. Dakar, Jibuti and Beirut.
The enemy had a stroke of genius when he put the French under the great French military leaders who had been beaten, for they still possessed enough prestige to impose ignominy on other Frenchmen.
"These leaders formerly served France, but they are betraying her today." he said. "These soldiers are no longer soldiers, these Frenchmen are no longer Frenchmen, these men arc no longer men.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5
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