The Earl of Bessborough, chief of the French Welfare Section of the Foreign Office, recently spoke on Franco-British relations at a meeting of former British residents of France in London. Lord Bessborough stressed the importance of reviving the friendship that existed between France and Great Britain, but he did not hesitate to refer to the difficulties and mistakes of the past and the dangers to come. British evacuees from France, he declared, had a special task to perform, for which he considered they were highly qualified. They would return to France not simply as individual British subjects, but as men and women with a precise mission. In renewing their contacts with former French friends and acquaintances, they would act as unofficial ambassadors of goodwill and understanding. They would recreate and cement the Entente Cordiale.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1943, Page 3
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