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FREE FRENCHMEN

COMMITTEES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT FOR DE GAULLE. HEADQUARTERS STATEMENT. (British Offiieial Wireless.) (Received This Day. 1.22 p.m.) RUGBY. October 6. The headquarters of the Free French forces announces that a number of national committees are being created in all foreign countries where there are important colonies of French people. These committees are acting in close co-operation with the Free French forces and within the framework of the laws of the countries of their residence. At the moment. such committees have been set up in the following countries:—Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay. Chile, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Egypt. South Africa, Australia and Mauritius. In twenty other countries, private individuals of French nationality'have offered their services in this respect and General de Gaulle has selected in each of these countries representatives who have been duly appointed and are setting up national committees wherever these do not exist already. The announcement adds that from all parts of the world the headquarters of the Free French forces has received messages reaffirming their loyalty to the Free France movement. These messages have particular significance after the Dakar incidents. General de Faulle has replied thanking the signatories for their encouragement and reaffirming his belief in final victory in co-opera-tion with the Allies.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 6

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210

FREE FRENCHMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 6

FREE FRENCHMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 6

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