DARLAN TALKS
. SAYS BRITAIN INSTIGATED WAR “FRENCH SIMPLY TOOLS IN HER HANDS.” THE ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL TREATY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) VICHY, May 29. Admiral Darlan, interviewed, said: “Britain instigated this war. The French were simply tools in her hands. England did her utmost to prevent France from profiting by her victory in the Great War and always sought to weaken us militarily.. England signed the Anglo-German Naval I Treaty without even warning France of negotiations. I recall a bitter discussion at the Admiralty with Mr A. V. Alexander, who finally exploded: ‘Admiral, you must understand that no First Lord could sleep while there was a single French submarine in the Channel’.” Admiral Darlan, referring to the internment of French warships at Alexandria after the French-German Armistice, said: “I pay homage to Admiral Cunningham, as the only British sailor who behaved like a gentleman.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 6
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