VICHY ASSURANCES
REGARDING MADAGASCAR. GIVEN TO UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) RUGBY, March 11. “The Vichy Government has sent the American Government formal assurances that Madagascar will not be permitted to fall under Axis control,” said Mr Sumner Welles (Assistant Secretary of State). He added that the assurance arrived nine or ten days ago and that at approximately the same time Marshal Petain communicated with President Roosevelt, assuring him that France intended to remain neutral and would not Consider handing the French fleet to the Axis for war purposes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4
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94VICHY ASSURANCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4
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