Delivering a broadcast address th: s evening, General de Gaulle stated:
"Tam convinced that all parts of the French empire will continue the fight... have reason to believe that the French Fleet will not surrender."
He added that he was in telegraphic communication with General Nogues, Resident-General of French Morocco, [General Mittelhauser, and General Catroux, Governor-General of French' Indo-China, "The enthusiasm of the reply given by French residents in Britain to my appeal," he said, "is virtually unbelievable, I have, also received several telegrams from Tangiers, Damascus, Madagascar, Cairo, Montevideo and New York."
Formation of the French National Committee, he declared, would be pushed When certain' important] French leaders arrived in Britain, He voiced the hope that Paul Reynaud, late Premier of France who resigned rather than conclude the armistice with Germany, would shortly arrive, The Committee, he stated in his: Jspeech, would demand the formation of a new Government on French ter-Hitory if the French colonial empire organized resistance against Germany
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