LAVAL’S AIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1942, Page 3

LAVAL’S AIM

f “NATIONAL SOCIALIST REPUBLIC” PARLIAMENTARY REGIME KILLED. MORE APPEALS FOR WORKERS FOR HITLER. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 17. The correspondent of “The Times” on the French frontier says Laval aroused the keenest interest throughout France when for the first time he referred at a Press conference to his aspirations for a National Socialist Republic. “I deliberately killed the old Parliamentary regime and tore up the last vestige of it when, by decree, I suppressed the Senate and Chamber of Deputies,” he said. The Vichy radio told the French people last night that the release of 50,000 French prisoners of war depends on the provision of 150.000 skilled workers for Hitler. “The departure of French workers for Germany must be intensified if the hopes awakened in war prisoners' camps are not to be doomed to disappointment,” it was; stated. ‘Two more prominent Frenchmen have arrived in Britain to place their services at the disposal of General de Gaulle. They are M. Charles Vallin, deputy for Paris, and vice-president of the French Social Party (the French right wing party, formerly known as the Croix de'Feu), and M. Pierre Brossolette, former foreign editor of the Socialist newspaper “Populaire.”