PETAIN POPULAR
TRYING TO SHIELD AND HELP THE PEOPLE. Marshal Petain is popular in France. The perusal of any French newspaper shows this, and people just out of France confirm the fact. To a people in despair the venerable old man represents something fatherly, and there is a feeling that he. is trying to shield and help the people of France. Touching letters from children to him are reproduced in French publications. Out of the chaos he stands for probity, for there is nothing dubious about his past, and he is not forgotten as the “hero of Verdun.” The French people, according to competent observers, have not realised how much he is a tool, unconscious of course, of the Germans and of those around him whose only interest is in a German victory if they are not to face many unpleasant contingencies. While the friendly critic acknowledges the good points there is, however, the matter of handing over political refugees to the Germans which it is hard to place- on the credit side of the account. Reforms that displease the Germans are not proceeded with. Frenchmen in London ask. how long?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1941, Page 5
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191PETAIN POPULAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1941, Page 5
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