"DIGNITY & HONOUR"
FRANCE STILL GUARDIAN OF EMPIRE EVEN AT PRICE OF HER BLOOD. ! DECLARATION BY" NEWSPAPER. ! 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) I (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. February 9. | In an article on the attitude of the Vichy Government entitled j “Dignity and Honour," the “Jour- ! nal” says: “We are still the loyal/ guardians of our Empire, even at the price of our blood. i “Marshal Petain in concluding the! (Armistice saved 3 things,” the news-1 ( paper adds —"The freedom of France, I her Fleet and her Empire. The Fleet l was rearmed to defend the Empire. | This appeared necessary even to the i conquerors." I The "Journal” quotes the "Basler i Nachrichten” as saying: “Marshal PcI fain in June might have obtained more favourable conditions, but he preferred French honour. Today he will make no concession that would infringe the honour of France. The “Journal" continues: “Our sen-j timents are unchanged. We are still , the loyal guardians of our Empire and i shall remain so." j
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 6
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166"DIGNITY & HONOUR" Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 6
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