New York, July 5.
"As Mr. Winston Churchill says, this should end all the silly talk of appeasement," says the "New York Herald Tribuine," in an article entitled "The Wil to Victory," and referring to the Anglo-French naval battle, "Britain has found, at last, the one thing which democratic powers have Jacked through these fantastic years, the will to fight regardless of the consequences, the will towards victory whatever the consequences, the will to fake whatever risks are necessary.
"That spirit entitles them to every ald which this country can gh them, it means that the struggle entered upon this heroic plane, can, yet, be won.
"The British action proves that reports of peace talk are groundless."
Jerusalem, July 6.
Mr. G. S, Blake, a Briton employed by the' Palestine Potash Company, and a Jewish constable, were murdered yes~ terday by Arab robbers in Jebel_Usdum, the traditional site of the ancient city of Sodom.
The victims were with an exploring party, who were attacked by the Arabs.
Mr. Blake was formerly the Palestine Government geologist. light on the foreign policy of France over the past few years, if they were taken seriously, But when, contrary to the solemn undertaking'given by the Republic of France to her ally Britain, Marshal Petain's Government capitulated 10 Germany and Italy, it was immediate: Jy realized in London that that Government had become the servant those two powers.
It is therefore now difficult to dis cover whether: any statements issued by members of Marshal Petain's ministration are genuine oF not.
Even assuming the dis honourable utterance attributed to M. Baudoin to have emanated from him, it could only have been made by the consent of Marshal Petain's "German and Ballan masters.—Reuter.
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