Hitler, now in the role of sri appeaser, is ing with two voices, one with which he seeks to woo France into closer ce-operation with the Axis ayainst Britain, and the other with which he endeavours to allay Mahan anxieties lest Marshal Petain be admitted Into the Axis as a_ partner. Obviously if such were {0 occur France could hardly be expected to make these territorial conces sions which Mussolini, desires. Marshal Petain in his broadcast over the Lyons radio Jot the eat peep out of the bag. He claims to have been under_no Diktat from Hitler, and that of his own free will he had "entered the road of collaboration" without pressure. In return he says France's sufferings will be lightened, the lot of French, prisoners improved, the burden of occupation expenses Tessened, the demarcation line may be vend= ered more flexible, and the administration's provisioning of the territory under it facllitated. And finally he appealed to Frenchmen, to trust—to trust him while he apparently is trusting Hitler.
What Der Filltrer has apparently been tempting to do has been to persuade Italy to sacrifice her ferrite ims ayainst nee.
That he har had to abandon, and he further faced with the recalcitrance aly which opposed any active or assive sistance from ice in the prosecution of that there would be too many fo share the swag in the une likely event of there being, vied visit fo Florence. "He suading, where but jessen to come to terms. Then the German press set out 16 soothe Mahan feelings. The "Berliner Boer= iunificantly asserted that while and been offered participation in th Axis system if she broke with Britain, Ger many" promised nothing regarding a\ kate? peace. Hitler would never say such a thin publicly, but there is no reason why the rietly controlled German press should not the Italians that after all peace with France had still 10 be neyotinted. the im=
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