VICHY TRAITORS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1942, Page 3

VICHY TRAITORS

DENOUNCED BY DE GAULLE * FREE FRANCE & THE ALLIES. POSITION IN MADAGASCAR & ELSEWHERE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 14. Broadcasting to the French people about Madagascar, General de Gaulle outlined the standing policy of the Free French committee regarding fhe territories which may be occupied by the Allies to help win the war. “The enemy and his Vichy collaborators,” he said, “loudly accuse our British allies of wishing to seize Madagascar and substitute there British for French sovereignty. The truth is that the allies of France observe with complete loyalty the obligations undertaken to respect all her rights. “It is a fact that in the Free French African bloc, the France that is fighting exercises the rights of sovereignty without any restrictions. It is also a fact that in Syria and Lebanon, fighting France will ensure that France upholds the traditional position of our nation. “In Madagascar, the same loyalty to cur British allies and the same authority of fighting France will ensure that, despite the hateful action of the Vichy traitors, French sovereignty will neither be interrupted nor eclipsed.” General de Gaulle added that it was an easy crime for the Vichy traitors to shed French blood by exploiting the spirit of discipline of professional troops and the short-signtedness of certain civil servants. “All the rage of Hitler and air the infamy of Vichy will be of no avail,” he added. “France has chosen her camp and it is the camp of victory.”