The Archive · 1939

French Commentary

Paris, Oct, 10.

The Premier, M, Edouard Daladier. neither approved hor criticized Adolf Hitler's speech; he merely ignored it, French political quarters said. tonight in commenting on the Premier's radio address, The most remarkable feature of this address, they added, was that it compared in all points to the tested declarations made in the past by the French Government and that it omphasized French determination" to pursue the war despite Adolf Hitler's Alleged peace proposals.

'The French Premier, the same political quarters said, clearly pointed ut that the German Fuchrer's broken pledges in the past did not permit anyone to trust him, that there was no reason {0 place' trust in Herr Hitler, 'At the same time, signifeance was attached to. M. Daladier's grateful Feferences to immediate and. strong British assistance from the very ute break' of the war. Anglo-French solidarity was daily becoming more evident to the French people, they eclated, and the Premier's statement served to refute formally. all German propaganda allegations that Britain was waging war with French soldiers,

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