UNION IN WAR
OF ALL FRENCHMEN t SOUGHT BY DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED. AFTER FIRST CONFERENCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 26. General de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and General Giraud, the French leader in North Africa, issued the following joint statement at the conclusion today of their first conference: T~ “We have met. We have talked. We have registered entire agreement on the end to be achieved, which is the liberation of France and the triumph of human liberties by total defeat of the enemy. This end will be attained by the union in war of all Frenchmen fighting side by side with all their allies.” On his return to London, General de Gaulle made the .following statement: “I was very honoured and happy to meet President Roosevelt in Africa. His friendship for France is a particularly comforting factor in the struggle which the French people are waging against the enemy within and without their own territory. It was an equal satisfaction to me to be able to renew my conversations on this occasion with Mr. Churchill.”
The French National. Committee in London has issued the following statement:—“On the occasion of the interAllicd conference in Africa, General de Gaulle, accomjoanicd by General Catroux and Admiral d’Argenlieu, met General Giraud in French North Africa. With a view to assuring unifeation of the war efforts of the empire and of the forces on land and sea and in the air, it was decided that the necessary liaisons should be established immediately,
“Moreover, in the course of the conversations a preliminary examination was made of the conditions under which the French effort in the war of liberation could be. developed, taking into account the new situation in French North and West Africa. Interchanges of views on this subject will be continued. ‘Complete union of the empire and all its forces,, in conjunction with the movement of'resistance in France, to be accomplished under conditions consonant with the dignity of the French people, remains the imrhutable aim of General de Gaulle and the National Committee.” >
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1943, Page 3
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346UNION IN WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1943, Page 3
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