FRENCH RESOLVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1942, Page 4

FRENCH RESOLVE

TO DESTROY NAZISM SYMBOLISED ON NATIONAL DAY. IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Thousands crowded around Marshal Foch’s statue in London where General de Gaulle laid a wreath. This was the principal ceremony of hundreds throughout the world at which the Fighting French rededicated themselves to the destruction of the Bastille of Nazidom. In London, that determination was symbolised by a French Commando’s fixed bayonets around Marshal Foch’s statue. From, dawn London’s French colony and sympathisers assembled long before General de Gaulle arrived and traffic had to be diverted. General de Gaulle received a tremendous ovation. Tricolours waved from thousands of hands and cheers and cries of “Vive la France!” resounded. General de Gaulle laid his wreath amid many which already were around the statue. The crowd then broke through the police barrier in an enthusiastic demonstration for General de Gaulle. The streets had to be forcibly cleared for the march past of the Fighting French. General de Gaulle pinned medals on thirty-six French heroes.