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MARTIN-On May 1, 1941, at the

Queen Mary Hospital, Constance, wife of T. Addis Martin, a daughter,

MANDEL FIGHTS

the PEACE PLOT

France-the Whole Truth

Fifth Article In The Sories 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

help."

had been told that the Waiting For U.S.

French Council of Minis

M. Reynaud had sent a ters was divided.

message to Mr Roosevelt, in He responded to an which he begged him:

"To 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

short of sending an expedi- Government.

tionary force."

means

M. MANDEL — consistent

opponent of the defeatist cabal

round the Premier.

He knew he would be

The two heads of Govern- asked to release France ments agreed to await Mr after reply, from the pledge she had Roosevelt's to 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 Hongkong Telegraph. tional gravity, and he took French Council of Ministers Langeron, whose high per-

The

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Arrangement,

BRITAIN'S SEA POWER

A few weeks ago the North African campaign monopolised the headlines of the world press. Attention then veered to Grecce and the heroic fight the Grecian and Imperial Forces put up agrinat overwhelming odds. Greece has

now fallen and 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

Radio

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

Paris Rumours a long while.

It was to ask if anything

Everywhere, in the cor- ridors, the hall and the court- abnormal was happening in yard, there was a turbulent Paris and whether the Ger-

mans were yet in sight. crowd.

The Prefect of Police an-

grew

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 cach 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 "I am not doubting your with whom he delighted to word, but I have an equal work and come to agree- confidence in that of M. ment.

sonal and administrative qualities I know."

I think that Sir Ronald's precision of mind must have been pleasing also to M. Rey-

Another call was put in to naud. M. Langeron and the in- formation was confirmed.

I should be less ready to General Weygand looked swear that Helene de Portes was fond of him. No! She' somewhat crestfallen. It was clear that the Bolshevist did not like Sir Ronald

card

had been Campbell, because she did. danger

not like Britain. trumped.

Meanwhile the Germans The Break made their entry into Paris, She did not like Britain be and we come to the eve of cause M. Baudouin did not like the general catastrophe. it either, and because Britain The scene is Bordeaux. meant the Alliance with obliga- When, on the night of tons 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

At Tours she began to shake on her part. It was calcu- off restraint. At Bordeaux she lation.

went beyond all bounds.

Bordeaux was already an active centre of defeatism.

Until the departure for Tours

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 Helenc de Portes who was to be seen there than an official of an usher?

She must have thought that

"I Insist On It!" swered:- There were ministers, "In Paris the most com- politicians, journalists, plete order reigns. Ger- functionaries, place-hunters man advance guards are re-

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 a woman.

and will be faithfully carried 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 She wanted to get into the taking his place at the coun- room where Reynaud and cil table.

From fear of bombing (of Churchill were conferring, M. Reynaud reported the which there had been only but she was prevented from gist of the conference which one instance), a crowd of

and

aristocrats developing this attack,

and but doing so

im- he had just had with Mr Parisian whether he can succeed by an-patient.

Churchill.

bourgeois had taken refuge other "blitz" is yet to be seen.

She sent for Baudouin, General Weygand reiter there since the beginning of Greece has not proved

reminding him of his pro- ated his ultimatum of the the war.

Constantly sighing, this clean-shaven Briton with decisive action for Germany, but mises, urging him to use all day before in even more em-

his influence with Reynaud. phatic terms. They must "When will this war be the piercing eye, whose casy it has undoubtedly given her a

"Tell Paul that we must ask for an armistice. News over?" they were a precious dignity she found intimidating, number of air bases and supplies

give up. We must make from the army was becom- crew who, when the Govern- was staying too long and was which should be advantageous

an end of it. There must ing more and more alarm- ment left Tours, were rein- going to annul the influence she' in the anticipated drive towards

be an armistice! Tell Paul ing.

forced by new arrivals from

She watched eagerly for his the Suez Canal and the oil fields,

Paris. of Iraq and Iran. The acquisi-

departure to undo his work at tion of these places are pre- requisite to Hitler's drive for world domination. The need for

must now be consuming at an

A moment came when a alarming rate, forces him to- wwwwwwwwwwwwards 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 is 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 bely, 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,

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Dilemma

had exercised,

so, won't you?-from me. He struck an attitude and, I insist on it."

once. drawing a paper from his Her face wore an angry file, he said gravely, 'laying

He suffered much at Bor-- The Government's with- deaux, where the defeatist cabal 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

politicians, had given up at- flocking from all sides. not without reason.

"I have just had a tele- Leon Blum, at Mandel's re-

For some who came, like tempting to conceal their hosti-

lity to Britain. gram sent from the Ad- quest, to prevent Reynaud of rudeness and boorish jest.

They even went to the length 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 Paris, and that Thorez Chautemps and other de

team-mates of Baudouin, miles from Bordeaux in which there was not even a telephone. M. Mandel, when told, quick- (the Communist leader) featists.

ly put matters right. has installed himself at According to rumours the Elysee."

Thirteen Votes which I have not been able M. Lebrun started. All

to verify, one of them tele- an end without a solution being

"Get that woman out of here, for the dignity of France. If not, I'll do it myself!"

By chance I met M. Rey-

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The Afteenth of June came to

It is also fighting un enemy equipped naud at a bend in a corridor the members of the Council phoned to M. Pierre Laval, reached. But there was

with more submarines, far better Vases and more assistance from the air than was ever dreamed of in the last world war. Furthermore, the Irish bases cannot be utilised as re-

in

as he was coming out of the were thunderstruck. Ex

cept one! conference...

no

who was keeping a watchful denying that the "capitulation- eye open at Clermont Fer- ists" were gaining ground. "You're not capitulat- Eve Of Disaster

rand, to

Reynaud was ever more con- say; ."Come!.

stantly badgered to make an fuelling stations by the British; yet, ing?" I asked, with an-

M. Mandel indicated to There's work to be done!"

end... in spite of these Increased duties and xiety.

What is certain is that M. the President that he had the difficulties to be met with.

thelc

The news which spread among "Never. Don't worry. execution, it is the Navy which sil But I'm forcing the note of something to say

Laval arrived and immedi- a few groups during this night maintains the biggest blockade in

"I should like to reassure ately made his presence felt. disquieted some and delighted history. It is fighting the U-boat merace; it made it possible for Gr

Greece

you, Mr President, and also The horror of war, the others.

"Thirteen votes in favour of to mobiilse; it assisted General Wavell

fully, and every shipyard under the Commander-in-Chief and frightful consequences of in- successfully to carry through the

capitulation and nino against," African campaign, and it is helpinz

purpose in view. The Suez Canni is the whole body of the Coun vasion, the possible slaugh- predicted a man who was skilled In the defence of Egypt to-day. The valuable to Hitler only becausé Acil.

ter, the threat of Bolshevism at estimating ballots. British naval units in the Meditor-

these were all themes on ranean, have successfully beaten the Hallar navy, and are prepared to

which he waxed eloquent., the offensive still further. carry

*To-morrow Paul Reynaud Without defeating this sen power,

Marshal Pelain : decides" la · spoed Hitler's victories on land cannot win

through alternate moods of up render. Mr. Churchill' offer of the war. General Smuts voiced this

courage and depression, France-Belilah unloadin truth the other, day when he stated, Tel. 21279

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