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MARSEILLAISE TO DIE (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, Aug. 23. The Marseillaise, great French National Anthem, is to die—by Hitler’s order, says the Daily Sketch. Abetz, Nazi Ambassador, has made a “ request ” to Petain that it shall no longer be played on unoccupied French radio nor on any public occasion. Its text is considered too revolu- i tionary, its tune too inspiring, says Nazis. They realised this when it was sung as a kind of “ hat song ” by workers in recent demonstrations | at Lyons. j Petain’s Government will shortly produce a new and tamer anthem. The Marseillaise is to be kept alive in Britain and the rest of the world by General de Gaulle, who will use it on all necessary occasions and will ignore the new one.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 8
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