ADMIRAL DARLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 6

ADMIRAL DARLAN

WHAT HE DARES NOT TELL FRANCE. MANIFESTO FROM DE GAULLE HEADQUARTERS. Admiral Darlan in a recent interview spoke of the “generosity and sincerity" of Hitler! A manifesto issued immediately by Free French headquarters calls him severely to task, and points out the following, among many others, that Darlan dare not tell France.

‘'Darlan promises to see that France shall take its place again as a great power in Europe,” says the Free French manifesto. “But Darlan accepts that France shall no longer have an army, that its fortifications shall be demolished, that hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen shall be driven from the homes they and their forefathers have lived in for centuries, that along the frontiers of the north and east France shall be amputated, losing a strip of territory 120 miles deep, that it shall abandon its protectorates, its mandated territories, and that the rest of its overseas possessions shall be submitted to Franco-German collaboration; in other words, to Nazi domination.

“As a matter of fact, Darlan is determined to condemn France to a state of helplessness and definite servitude. The turncoat admiral is burning to see the Richelieu, the Jean Bart, the Strasbourg and Dunkerque take the place of German and Italian ships destroyed, and fight in order that France should remain for ever a Nazi province with Darlan as Gauleiter.”