FREE FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 8

FREE FRANCE

CARDINAL HINSLEY’S FAITH DECLARATION BY GENERAL DE GAULLE. WITH BRITAIN AS CHAMPION OF FREEDOM, i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright'• LONDON. January 9. The Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Hinsley, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain, today expressed the faith of English Catholics m the cause for which General de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, is lighting. At a luncheon m London Cardinal Hinsley described General de Gaulle as a man who was to be honoured for keeping his faith in France and her future throughout her darkest days. He said he honoured General do Gaulle as a soldier who withstood the onslaught of superior forces and rallied the remnants <1 the French army to continue the fight. Cardinal Hinsley called o.i his fel-I'-w-ecimtrymeii to stand fast to the ( r< <-; of Lorraine, and said. "Thai upright vr-ss will stand high aloft when the crooked swastika is m the dust." hi replying. General do Gaulk said that ’.tie Free French movement was La\<i i,i'. three vlemcnt.v— the cohvk’-, le.-:i that France was not vanquished ::’.e feeling that France was in honour, aound to tight on. and the refusal to! iciino','.'ledge a Government that was I indt?r chcbiv ' f ranee : . not vanquished." he said , She .-till has Her empire her navy ! ter m-i marine, and a big re-1 I'lvc ■ f gold France is me. vanquish-j •d. : ecam.- her ,uui rcmime " lie! ave a pieage of continued and in-1 mm mg assistance by the Free French ■ ’• •' ’ c cm, ■-<•, and add-| ' ! 1 ngth. me by ■ ide ? . jip p,, British i • !i "' ■' "So ... proud task it is to be’