‘UNDER HITLER’S WHIP’

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 5

‘UNDER HITLER’S WHIP’

DE GAULLE DENOUNCES VICHY TRIAL PROSECUTORS SHOULD BE IN DOCK. MISERABLE SUBSERVIENCE TO DICTATORS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 9. Describing the Vichy trial as having been deliberately engineered, General de Gaulle, broadcasting, 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. “Through the whole world,” General de Gaulle continued, “from Gibraltar to Kanchaka, from Magellan to Behring Straits, not a single person seriously doubts that those responsible for the war are the dictators in Berlin and Rome, yet a monstrous trial has been 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.

AT NAZI REQUEST FRENCH MINISTERS RECALLED. FROM OCCUPIED COUNTRIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) VICHY, September 9. At the request of Germany, the Government is terminating its diplomatic representation in the German-occupied countries. FRENCH INDIA DECLARES FOR DE GAULLE. PONDICHERRY, September 10. French India has rallied to General de Gaulle and has denounced the Vichy Government.