The Petain Government issued statement yesterday assailing Brita "ingumMetent ald and asserted that in the future French would define her own foreign policy without dictation from Germany or Italy.
'The Government appealed to the' United States to "kingly understand the immense grief of France, "We seek neither to deny nor hide the errors and mistakes our country has made," the statement declared, in' the present situation, French citizen bears a shat The Government warned Britain to receive only with extreme caution those Frenchmen whom "our country disavows and wants to forget at any price."
The final victory for the French was revealed last night in possibly the Fast French communique of the wa Occupation to Begin General declared, depended upon the arrival of certain important personages, There was no doubt that Bf. Reynaud would be a member, If the response developed as they expected in the French colonial em~ pire, the national committee would seek to form a French Government somewhere on French soil, That Government would continue fo be re-resented in London, If Britain were attacked and resisted, the French would organize resistance somewhere in France.
Asked about his reported liability to a court-martial, General de Gaulle said he had received no communication of Marshal Petain's decision, but whatever happens, it won't change anything in my position,"—Reuter,
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