FREE FRANCE
LIMITED UNITED STATES RECOGNITION. ONLY IN PACIFIC ISLANDS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 2. The State Department confirmed today an announcement in London that the United States recognised the Free French control of French possessions in the Pacific, including New Caledonia. „ TT , 2 , It was explained that the United States policy toward the French overseas territories would be governed by the manifest effectiveness with which the local French authorities protected their territories from the common enemy. The Acting-Secretary of State, Mr Welles, said that the statement did not include the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 3
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99FREE FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 3
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