FRENCH PARTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1943, Page 3

FRENCH PARTIES

DESIRE TO FINISH SURVIVAL OF VICHV MESSAGE TO NATIONAL COMMITTEE. FROM COUNCIL OF UNDERGROUND GROUPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 26. The Council of Resistance, representing the leading underground groups in France and including partisans and trade unions, Republicans, Rightists and Communists, has for the first time sent a message to the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers urging it to "finish once and for all with the survivals of Vichy.” The message also expressed confidence that the committee would remain strictly faithful to General de Gaulle’s manifesto of May, 1942, which his followers call the French Charter, embodying the fundamental principles to which all the forces of resistance have been attached for three years. One of the chief political consequences of Mussolini’s resignation will undoubtedly be increased pressure by the French Committee of National Liberation for recognition by Britain and America, says the Algiers correspondent of the "New York Times.” Frenchmen point out that if Italy capitulates every Allied Government but the Committee will share in arranging the terms of treatment for Italy. Since France has suffered much from the Italians, such as the "stab in the back,” it feels almost “insulted that the Committee is excluded from the high Allied councils.” If the Allies continue to withhold recognition an ugly situation may arise finally, considerably damaging French-British relations, the correspondent says.