The Archive · 1940

For Independence of All

"The propaganda of Goebbels is interested in fomenting discord. The French masses listen to it with contempt when it describes our country as plutocratic, France is calm and proud like her ally. For some time the thunderclap of the new the Allies had, with all other countries, a vital interest in common—to prevent a German hegemony. Thus it is for the independence of all other countries that our soldiers are fighting on the Somme and Aisne.

"There is no nation with whom France cannot settle by peaceful means, divergent interests which appear to oppose each other. I have stated o publicly, and I repeat it. France desires the om of these problems and the istruction of a Europe in which prosperity and the independence of each nation is assured.

"Let spectators of the drama of the eite for France understand, and

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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