Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador in the United States, has announced that cer-
AH e may be revised, and the total are helping the Germans, the Admiral Darlan's announcement to the press ible that the Vichy Govern-order the French fleet to convoy to unoccupied France through the CE blockade is another unfortunate proof ins t to which the German domina-unoccupied France has been allowed increase. There can be very little doubt Germans were responsible for such i by putting pressure on the Vichy Government which they could not resist. If this is the case, then it would seem to be that the Germans see some ich people, about whom they do in such a relaxation of irish blockade. If means have been in Washington to ensure that they not get this advantage which they hoped so many sacrifices.
In the meantime, however, there are certain vital facts which must not be lost sight of. Among them is the work now being done in French factories in unoccupied France on behalf of the German forces. It is reported without any possibility of truthful contradiction that some of these factories are turning out tools and aeroplane parts for the Germans, thus definitely assisting them to resist the British counter-offensive. It is known for certain that the Germans have taken one million tons of wheat from occupied France for the feeding of the peoples within the Reich. Of this enormous total they have returned about two million quintals, and have taken considerable credit to themselves for their generosity. Since unoccupied France depends largely for its supply of wheat upon occupied France, the shortage in the former area can be directly attributable to the Nazis.
All their talk of starving women and children, therefore, rebounds on to their own heads, It is also known beyond a shadow of contradiction that Axis armistice commissions are commandeering supplies which are being landed at Marseilles from French Africa, and railroading them direct to Nazi territories. These acts the Vichy Government has been unable to resist; and so long as the conditions under which Britain has permitted supplies to go through are unknown, it is impossible to say how this kind of Nazi extortion is to be inet. That Britain has ogreed to let the supplies through can be taken as evidence enough that an effective plan has been devised, with the ce-operation of the United States, to make sure that the Germans benefit as little as possible.
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