VICHY WARNED
COLLABORATION WITH AXIS. DENOUNCED BY UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, August 2. The failure of France to resist Japanese aggression in French Indo-China menaced American security, said the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr Welles, in a statement assailing French collaboration with the Axis. The Vichy Government, he said, had given repeated assurances to the United States that it would not co-oper-ate with the Axis beyond the armistice obligations and would defend the territories under its control against any aggression on the part of third Powers. The United States had now received information of the terms of the agreement covering the so-called common defence of French Indo-China, showing that Vichy had virtually transferred that part of the French Empire to Japan. The United States, therefore, had warned Vichy that future American relations with France would be guided by the degree of effectiveness with which France defended its territories against Axis aggression.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 5
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