APPEAL TO HISTORY
GREEK & FRENCH PEOPLES EXCHANGE OF FRIENDLY MESSAGES. DECLARATION OF MUTUAL CONFIDENCE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, November 3. General de Gaulle, in a telegram to General Metaxas, said: “On behalf of all French people—those who are still fighting and those who are temporarily held in servitude by the enemy—l express'to your Excellency and the Government and people of Greece our admiration and confidence that in safeguarding once more their independence, the Greeks will give the world an example worthy of their ancient traditions. Together with our Allies, we shall beat our common enemy.” General Metaxas replied: “I warmly thank you for your telegram. All Greece is convinced, in the present grave moment of history, that the hearts of all the French people, without exception, are beating for the success of our just cause. The great French nation which has so many times followed the noble example of our ancestors. and gallantly supported us at the time of our independence, could not but be with us once more.' ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 6
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174APPEAL TO HISTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 6
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