Vichy government, coupled with recent anti-British outbursts over the radio station controlled by Vichy, is curiously reminiscent of Nazi propaganda before the collapse of France. "The Nazis then used as their slogan: "Britain is ready to fight to the last Frenchman." They were not believed. The attempt to split the unity of the Allies failed with the majority of the French people, though it apparently had some effect upon the clique which eventually signed an ignominious armistice. There is little doubt that this clique has a similar end in view—the destruction of the bonds of sympathy and hope which bind together the great British and French nations. It is doubtless the hope of M, Baudoin to provoke some reply from some British spokesman, as splenetic in tone as his attack on the Prime Minister. In this he will fail, The sentiments he has expressed are so much akin to those felt in Berlin, that it might be supposed that they were dictated to him by the German conquerors. They are not the sentiments of the French nation, but those of a man who has to act, whether he likes it or not, as lin' already-been set forth. It shares the regret and sympathizes with the humiliation felt by the vast body of Frenchmen forward to the day when the true heart of France will beat normally again; when a nation, recovered from the hammer blows which have temporarily stunned it, will once more take the field in the day of Hitler's retribution.
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