London, June 5. The United States Ambassador in Vichy, Admiral William Leahy, yesterday saw Marshal Philippe Petain, head of the French State, and is reported to have asked the marshal for a statement on French policy.
The Vichy Government has ordered the most vigorous censorship of all despatches from newspaper correspondents in Vichy dealing with Franco-German collaboration.
Marshal Petain himself made no reference to Germany, Syria or Tunisia when he spoke yesterday about the so-called new order which he has planned for France—Reuter.
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