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'BIRTH

MANDEL FIGHTS

the PEACE

France-the Whole Truth

Fifth Article In The.Series 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.

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lities of transporting availa- ble troops to Africa.

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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 restating 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.

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 means

short Government.

sending an expedi- tionary force." 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 to signed not to negotiate which they would reconsider

I am sure that M. Dala- either a separate armis-

the situation.

dier's memory of Sir Ronald After Mr Churchill, Lord tice or peace.

"I am not doubting your with whom he delighted to Campbell is of a partner. Halifax and Lord Beaver- word, but I have an equal work and come to agree- The matter was of excep- brook had left for London, a confidence in that of M. ment.

MARTIN. On May 1, 1941, at the

Queen Mary Hospital, Constance, wife of Martin, a daughter,

The

Addis

M. MANDEL consistent opponent of the defeatist cabal round the Premier.

Hongkong Telegraph. tional gravity, and he took French Council of Ministers Langeron, whose high per-

Thursday, May 1, 1941,

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This was the British Am- bassador, Sir Ronald Camp- bell..

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

Lord Halifax and Lord was immediately called.. sonal Beaverbrook with him.

and administrative Before going to it, M. qualities I know." Mr Churchill's interview Mandel had a telephone call with M. Reynaud took place put in to M. Langeron, the M. Langeron and the in-

Another call was put in to naud. in one of the official rooms Prefect of Police in Paris. of the Prefecture and lasted

formation was confirmed. a long while.

Everywhere, in the cor- ridors, the hall and the court-

either wholly or in park without previous yard, there was a turbulent

BRITAIN'S SEA POWER

A few weeks ago the North African campaign monopolised the headlines of the world press. Attention thon veered to Greece and the heroic fight the Grecian

crowd.

and a woman.

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:-

card

It

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

had been Campbell, because she did trumped.

not like Britain. Meanwhile the Germans made their entry into Paris, and we come to the eve of the general catastrophe.

The Break

At Tours she began to shake At Bordeaux' she went beyond all bounds.

"I Insist On It!" There were ministers, "In Paris the most com-

cause M. Baudouin did not like She did not like Britain be- politicians, journalists, plete order reigns. Ger- functionaries, place-hunters inan advance guards are re-

it either, and because Britain all the hubbub of the ported in the suburbs.

The scene is Bordeaux. meant the Alliance with obliga- Parliamentary lobbies dur-

When, on the night of tions which she was anxious to ing great Ministerial crises all his instructions are being rebelled against the choice of she did not express her feelings

"Assure the Minister that June 12-13, Mme. de Portes have broken.

Until the departure for Tours and Imperial Forces put up

and will be faithfully carried Brittany and demanded Bor- publicly. against overwhelming

This woman, Helene de out." odda.

deaux, it was not mere whim Creece has

Portes, came and went be- ΠΟΥ fallen and

M. Langeron's words were on her part. It was calcu- off restraint. tween the hall and the court- sent on to M. Mandel and lation. attention is again being focussed on North Africa, where the

yard.

reached him just as he was

Bordeaux was already an stage is set for a determined room where Reynaud and cil table.

She wanted to get into the taking his place at the coun- active centre of defeatism. German onslaught on Egypt. Churchill were conferring,

From fear of bombing (of M. Reynaud reported the which there had been only -Worlds-losing no time in but she was prevented from gist of the conference which one instance), a crowd of developing this attack, but doing so and grew im- he had just had with Mr Parisian aristocrats and 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 a

reminding him of his pro- ated his ultimatum of the the war. decisive action for Germany, but his influence with Reynaud, phatic terms. They must "When will this war

mises, urging him to use all day before in even more em-

She must have thought that Constantly sighing, this clean-shaven Briton with be the piercing eye, whose easy "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 be an armistice! Tell Paul ing.

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It has undoubtedly given her a number of air bases and supplies which should be advantageous in the anticipated drive towards the Suez Canal and the oil fields, o Iraq and Iran. The acquisi- tion of these places are pre- requisite to Hitler's drive for 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 that

In peacetime, but It 'is doing in this

war what four navies did in the last

It

Is also fighting an enemy equipped with more submarines, far better bases and more assistance from the

air that was over dreamed of in the last world war. Furthermore, tho

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Dilemma

Shall I inform Sir Ronald Campbell, or did he himself notice, that, if a door opened many interviews he had with a trifle sometimes during the 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?

had exercised.

once.

so, won't you?-from me. He struck an attitude and,

She watched eagerly for his I insist on it."

departure to undo his work at drawing a paper from his Her face wore an angry file, he said gravely, laying expression, and her hair was stress on his words:

The Government's with deaux, where the defentist cabal He suffered much at Bor- 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. not without reason.

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-

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 pears that serious distur- many more who arrived as as his residence, a chateau 30 They gave the Ambassador, bances have broken out in 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." naud at a bend in a corridor the members of the Council By chance I met M. Rey- M. Lebrun started. All as he was coming out of the were conference.

thunderstruck. Ex- Eve Of Disaster M. Mandel indicated to the President that he had

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

"You're not capitulat-

Irish bases cannot be utilised as re-ing?" I asked, with an-

fuelling stations, by the British; yet

"Never. Don't worry.

cept one!

the dimculties to be which But I'm forcing the note of something to say:-

In spite of these increased duties and | xiety.

with in their. execution, It is the

still maintains the biggest blockade in history. It is fighting the U-boat meraco It made it possible for Greece to mobilise; it assisted Gonors Wavell successfully, to

to carry through the the African campaign, and it is helping in the defence of Egypt to-day. The British naval units rbhean, have successfully beaten the Italior navy, and aro

the

fully,

and every shipyard under

Thirteen Votes

no

According to rumours which I have not been able phoned to M. Pierre Laval, reached. But there was

The fifteenth of June came to to verify, one of them tele- 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! Roynaud was ever more con- say; There's work to be done!" stantly badgered to make an

end. What is certain is that M. Laval arrived and immedi- a few groups during this night The news which spread among ately made his presence felt. disquieted some and delighted

The horror of war, the others. frightful consequences of in- "Thirteen votes in favour of vasion, the possible slaugh- predicted a man who was skilled capitulation and ning against," ter, the threat of Bolshevism; at estimating ballots.

these were all themes on which he waxed eloquent. ****

Paul Reynaud passed through alternate moods of.. Marshal Petain deoldes' lo speed courage and depression.

"I should like to reassure you, Mr President, and also German control is working with this the Commander-in-Chief and purpose in view. The Suez Canal is the whole body of the Coun- valuable to Hitler only because it cil. Meditor-

would give him an unbroken link with the Japanese navy.

Tho efforts "There are no riots in of Berlin to obtain the French Fleet Paris and M. Thorez, Mr carry the offensive sul furred to..

Without defeating this sca

have been unending since France Hitler's, victories on land, cannot win; Parle and Vichy the qucation of rea your bed this evening."

and in all the talks, between Berlin, President, will not sleep in the

war, General' Smuts, voiced this nevar ie the dominant-koy-note. The truth the other day when he stated, "Germany, is winning victories and

bottle for supremacy on the son has Are you doubting my foring the war." Hitler is, however,

begur and must continue until the word?" cut in General Wey De Gaulle had gone to discusion. Bandouin do? decisive battle has been; fought and astute enough, to understand, this. work...!

gand harshly,

London to study the possibi- French Ficet fall.

power,

[o-morrow

up surrender, Mr Churchill's offer of Franco-British tinion to - dimmissed ludes Final efforts to save the

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