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Barren Prospect “ No enthusiasm, no hope, no inspiration can be derived by anyone from the sight of the 85-year-old Marshal Petain’s efforts to ‘ rejuvenate ’ France. In what he and his men are doing there is no rejuvenating quality; the monkey-gland treatment they are administering to their unhappy country can, at most, give it the faint illusion that it is vaguely alive and, to use Leopold’s phrase, ‘ relatively independent.’ Before many months are past, the French people, who do not yet know the whole Armistice terms and have no inkling of the peace that Hitler intends, will have lost even this illusion. By aping the Nazis, by aping the Italian Fascists, by reserving all their anger and abuse for England, Petain and his Ministers are hoping to ingratiate themselves with Hitler and Mussolini so that these may allow France to enjoy the illusion of independence. But if Germany is compelled, by England’s successful resistance, to draw more and more ruthlessly on France's economic and labour resources, all that Petain and his Ministers are now hoping to save will be lost.”—The New Statesman, London,
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 6
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186TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 6
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