June 9.
There is, owing to the conflicting nature of the reports coming to hand, considerable mystery as to what has been happening in connection with General Weygand's visit to Vichy. From New York it is reported that he has frustrated any plans which Vichy might have had for actual military collaboration with Germany and Italy, and made it quite plain that French Africa would not follow Vichy into any military venture against ' Britain, or the United States. It is reported that he insisted that France should refuse to give Germany big stocks of motor trucks, petrol, aeroplane motors, anti-aircraft batteries and munitions now in the French colonies which Germany needs for her Libyan campaign. The General pointed out that since munitions plants in France had been dismantled there would ko no fresh stocks to replace those at present in Africa, and he is too good a soldier to overlook the fact that the French colonial armies without munitions would become a negligible factor so far as Germany is concerned, On the other hand the United Press correspondent in London reports that conflicting. stories are current regarding the alleged capitulation of General Weygand to the extreme pro-German faction of the Vichy Government, speculation remaining as to how far General Weygand would be prepared
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