THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE PLIGHT OF FRANCE
Not long ago "Temps" asked Frenchmen
the those
who were
nervous about the negot-
iations between Vichy and Hitler to remember Marshal Petain's formula "Honour forbids us to take any action against our former allies." Colonel Collet, in his manifesto to the French troops in Syria, contrasted this de- claration with the Vichy surrender to the Nazis in Syria. "Can it be," he asked, "that you have forgotten so easily or that you attach SO little im- portance to honour?" Marshal Petain's speech gives the answer. For his; argument is that Hitler might have wiped France off the map of the world last June. Not only did, he give France an armis- tice, but he has consent- ed, in return for French collaboration, to modify the terms of that armis- tice, whose character "could only be pro-}
Yeates
LANGLOTM
SOVIET GUARANTER
VITAMISED
B.B.C. Beats Blitz
visional." France has Some months ago millions off
therefore decided on col-people in Britain
plosion of one bomb -- without' terrible risk -- are based on the
оп the ground than thirty nationalities.
Rehearsals have often to be held
Hard Facts
-By- A.P. Luscombe Whyte
told
..
Well-known men of many nationalities speak direct to their countrymen. These foreign speak- ers, many of them refugees from tyranny, have turned a once-} sleepy. English market town into; a cosmopolitan centre which the puzzled "locals" have renamed), Babeltown.