Bordeaux, June 24.
Marshal Henri Petain, Premier of France, attacked the British Prime Minister last night for "trying to divide the French people at a time when their country is suffering."
In a radio broadcast replying to Mr. Winston Churchill's statement that Britain would fight on despite the Franco-German armistice, Mar shal. Petain protested against Mr. Churchill's alleged "interference with French interest:
"Churchill may be the judge of his country's interests, but not of ours, Marshal Petain said. "His is still less a judge of French honour.
"Our flag remains unsullied. Our army fought bravely and loyally. Inferior in arms and numbers, it was obliged to request that the fighting cease, and I affirm that our army did so with independence and dignity.'
BEF. Units Leave Meanwhile, the semi-official "Lo Temps" said in an editorial that if Britain had been able to send to France a large and well-equipped army, France would not have been compelled to sue for peace on Chancellor Adolf Hitler's term The French Radio later announced that the last British Expeditionary Force units in France had returned to the British Isles yesterday.
The French press emphasized in editorials printed here yesterday that France fought to the extreme limit of her strength before capitulating to German armistice demands.
The conservative newspaper "Figaro" sai esterday in commenting on the armistice that "We must accept without weakening and without sterile complaints." went down fighting in a she sought no material She lost no prestige because she kept all her engagements to civilization to the limit of her strength," the paper d.
"We are aware that our soldiers fought with unequalled brave and did their utmost to halt the invaders, the paper said.—Reuter
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