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MARTIN,-On May 1, 1941, at the
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The
MANDEL FIGHTS
the PEACE PLOT
France-the Whole Truth
Fifth Article In The Serles by
ELIE J. BOIS
Famous Editor of the "Paris Parisian," who died in London on Monday
JUNE the thirteenth, despair to get the English to Mr Winston Churchill give us the maximum of had been told that the help." French Council of Minis- Waiting For U.S.
ters was divided.
M. Reynaud had sent a He responded to an which he begged him: "To message to Mr Roosevelt, in appeal made to him by declare publicly that the M. Paul Reynaud that United States would grant he should visit Tours to the Allies moral and material consult with the French support by every Government.
short of sending an expedi- tionary force."
means
He knew he would be
The two heads of Govern- asked to release France ments agreed to await Mr. from the pledge she had Roosevelt's reply, after signed not to negotiate which they would reconsider
the situation. either a separate armis-
After Mr Churchill, Lord tice or peace.
Halifax and Lord Beaver The matter was of excep-brook had left for London, a Lord
Halifax and Lord was immediately called.. Beaverbrook with him.
Before going to it, M. Mr Churchill's interview Mandel had a telephone call. with M. Reynaud took place put in to M. Langeron, the in one of the official rooms Prefect of Police in Paris. of the Prefecture and lasted
Hongkong Telegraph.tional gravity, and he took French Council of Minister's
Thursday, May 1, 1941.
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a long while.
Everywhere, in the cor- ridors, the hall and the court- after wholly or in park without previous yard, there was a turbulent
crowd.
BRITAIN'S SEA POWER
A few weeks ago the North African campaign monopolised the headlines of the world press. Attention then veered to Greece and the heroic fight the Grecian and Imperial Forces put up against overwhelming odds. Creece has now fallen und
attention is again being focussed on North Africa, where the stage is set for a determined German onslaught on Egypt.
World Hitler-is-losing no time in developing this attack, but whether he can succeed by an- other "blitz" is yet to be seen.
Greece has not proved a
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"I Insist On It!"
There were
Paris Rumours
It was to ask if anything abnormal was happening in Paris and whether the Ger- mans were yet in sight.
The Prefect of Police an- swered:-
M. MANDEL consistent opponent of the defeatist cabal round the Premier.
lities of transporting availa- ble troops to Africa.
But before getting into the plane he pointed out to the head of the Government all the reasons for not despair- ing and the importance of resisting the evil influences which sought to envelop him.
His duty lay in Algiers or London. This was what, in a different tone and with similar arguments, Mandel repeated to the Premier each time he saw him.
But Helene de Portes was goading M. Reynaud in a different direction.
In this unparalleled period there was one man who ful- filled a difficult and burden- some mission with dignity, tact and patience.
This was the British Am- bassador, Sir Ronald Camp- bell.
I am sure that M. Dala- dier's memory of Sir Ronald Campbell is of a partner word, but I have an equal work and come to agree- "I am not doubting your with whom he delighted to confidence in that of M. ment. Langeron, whose high, per- sonal
and administrative
qualities I know."
M. Langeron and the in- Another call was put in to
formation was confirmed.
I think that Sir Ronald's precision of mind must have been pleasing also to M. Rey- naud.
I should be less ready to General Weygand looked swear that Helene de Portes somewhat crestfallen. It was fond of him. No! She was clear that the Bolshevist did not like Sir Ronald danger card had been Campbell, because she did trumped.
not like Britain.
Meanwhile the Germans made their entry into Paris,
The Break
She did not like Britain be- "In Paris the most com- and we come to the eve of cause M. Baudouin did not like the general catastrophe. it either, and because Britain
ministers, functionaries, place-hunters man advance guards are re- politicians, journalists, plete order reigns. Ger-
all the hubbub of the ported in the suburbs. Parliamentary lobbies dur "Assure the Minister that ing great Ministerial crises all his instructions are being and will be faithfully carried
and a woman.
This woman, Helene de out.” Portes, came and went be-
M. Langeron's words were tween the hall and the court- sent on to M. Mandel and yard.
reached him just as he was room where Reynaud and cil_table.
She wanted to get into the taking his place at the coun- Churchill were conferring,
M. Reynaud reported the but she was prevented from gist of the conference which doing so and grew im- he had just had with Mr patient.
Churchill.
Until the departure for Tours
The scene is Bordeaux: meant the Alliance with obliga- When, on the. night of tions which she was anxious to June 12-13, Mme. de Portes have broken, rebelled against the choice of she did not express her feelings Brittany and demanded Bor- publicly.. deaux, it was not mere whim on her part. It was calcu lation.
Bordeaux was already an active centre of defeatism.
From fear of bombing (of which there had been only one instance), a crowd of Parisian aristocrats and bourgeois had taken refuge She sent for Baudouin, General Weygand reiter- there since the beginning of reminding him of his pro- ated his ultimatum of the the war.
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At Toure she began to shake off restraint. At Bordeaux she went beyond all bounds.
Shall I inform Sir. Ronald Campbell, or did he himself notice, that, if a door opened a trifle sometimes during the many interviews he had with M. Reynaud on June 14, 15 and 16, it was more often Helene de Portes who was to be seen there than an official- or an usher?
She must have thought that
once.
decisive action for Germany, but mises, urging him to use all day before in even more em- Constantly sighing, this clean-shaven Briton with his influence with Reynaud. phatic terms. They must "When will this war be the piercing eye, whose casy "Tell Paul that we must ask for an armistice. News over?" they were a precious dignity she found intimidating. give up. We must make from the army was becom- crew who, when the Govern- was staying too long and was an end of it. There must ing more and more alarm- ment left Tours, were rein- going to annul the influence she
had exercised. be an armistice! Tell Paul ing.
forced by new arrivals from She watched-eagerly for his 90, won't you?-from me. He struck an attitude and, Paris.
departure to undo his work at I insist on it."
drawing a paper from his
Dilemma Her face wore an angry file, he said gravely, laying
The Government's with- deaux, where the defentiat cabal He suffered much at Bor- expression, and her hair was stress on his words:- drawal to Bordeaux was the around the Premier, in the "Gentlemen, if I say we signal for politicians to come Foreign Office and among the can wait no longer, it is flocking from all sides. politicians, had given up at-
"I have just had a tele- Leon Blum, at Mandel's re-
For some who came, like tempting to conceal their hosti- gram sent from the Ad- quest, to prevent Reynaud of rudeness and boorish jest, miralty, from which it ap- from giving way, there were They gave the Ambassador, pears that serious distur- bances have broken out in many more who arrived as as his residence, a chateau 30
team-mates Paris, and that Thorez Chautemps and other de
of Baudouin, miles from Bordeaux in which there was not even a telephone. (the Communist leader) featists.
M. Mandel, when told, quick- has installed himself at
ly put matters right. the Elysee."
Thirteen Votes
world domination. The need for must now be consuming at an alarming rate, forces him to-
A moment came when a wards Iraq, while the occupation man in uniform lost pa- of the Suez Canal and Red Sea | tience. He took advantage zone would link him with the of M. Baudouin's return to Far East and the naval strength the hall to say to him blunt- of Japan, But desirable as these points may be, it should not be ly, as he pointed to where forgotten that the ultimate and she was standing: decisive battle will lie on the seas, where the battle is now, in fact, being fought.
The British Navy is even more silent about its work in wartime thar
in peacetime, but it is doing in this
war what four navies did in the last
"Get that woman out of here, for the dignity of France. If not, I'll do it myself!"
not without reason.
lity to Britain. •
They even went to the longth
According to rumours which I have not been able naud at a bend in a corridor the members of the Council phoned to M. Pierre Laval, reached. But there was
By chance I met M. Rey- M. Lebrun started. All
to verify, one of them tele-
as he was coming out of the were thunderstruck. Ex- the conference.
It is also fighting an enemy equipped with more submarines, for better bases and more assistance from the air than was ever dreamed of in the
Irish bases cannot be utilised
cept one!
an-.
last world war. Furthermore, the "You're not capitulat- Eve Of Disaster fuelling stations by the British; yet ing?" I asked, with In spite of these increased duties and xiety.
M. Mandel indicated to the difficulties to be met with in their "Never. Don't worry,
the President, that he had execution, is
it the Navy which stil
But I'm forcing the note of something to say maintains the biggest blockade in history. It is fighting the U-boat
"I should like to reassure menace; it made it possible for
you, Mr President, and also Wavell fully, and suose; it assisted General Wive
every shipyard under the Commander-in-Chief and successfully to carry through the German control is working with this African campaign, and it is
and it is helping purpose in view. The Suez Canal is the whole body of the Coun- in the defence of Egypt to-day. The British naval units in the Mediter would give him an unbroken link
valuable to Hitler only because it cil ranean have successfully beaten the with the Japanese navy. The efforts "There are no riots in Italiar navy, and are'
or Berlin to obtain the French Ficet Paris and M. Thorez, Mr
since France
end.
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The fifteenth of June came to an end without a solution being who was keeping a watchful denying that the "capitulation- eye open at Clermont Fer- ists" were gaining ground. rand, to
"Come! say;
Reynaud was ever more con- There's work to be done!" stantly badgered to make an What is certain is that M. The nows which spread among Laval arrived and immedi- a few groups during this night 'ately made his presence felt. disquieted some and delighted
The horror of war, the others, frightful consequences of in- vasion, the possible slaugh- ter, the threat of Bolshevism these were all themes on which he waxed eloquent.
Paul Reynaud passed through alternate moods of courage and depression. London. to study the possibi-
carry the offensive' still fared to
Without defeating this sen pover, and in all the talles between Berlin, President, will not sleep in Hitler's victories on land cannel win Paris and Vichy the question of rea your bed this evening.” the war. General Smuts voiced this mosung in the dominant key-note. The truth the other duty, when he stated, battle for supremacy on the sea has "Are you doubting my "Germany losing, the war." Hitler is, however,
winning victories and bogus and must continue until the word?" cut in General Wey De Gaulle had gone to ostule enough to understand this
gand harshly.
decisive battle has been fought and won.
"Thirteen votes in favour of predicted a man who was skilled capitulation and nine against," at estimating ballots.
To-morrow
'Alarisal ·· Petain' deoldes to speed up surrender, Mr Churchill's offer of Franco-British union. Is dismissed
ludes: Final "offoris 'to savo
without discussion. Baudouin de- French Fleet fall,
the