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Reel 17427 - Page 1649

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1941/1945

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Public Domain

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fra

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# Daint (DEGOCX)

100 Vicky (Colonies)

20 June 1944

FST

#10841-10842 (2 parts complete)

To be decoded by you personally.

## Part 1.

1. In your telegram #1735/S of 30 September, 1943, you were kind enough to explain to me the reasons which, in the opinion of the Ministry of Public Instruction, militated in favor of the renewal of N. CHARTON's colonial assignment as Superintendent of Public Instruction in Indochina, despite the arguments which I had presented to you in proposing the opposite course in my #1749/SS of 21 August.

2. The attitude of N. CHARTON has since made me regret not having more emphatically requested you to champion my point of view. Indeed, I must report to you that no further doubt is possible in my mind as to the deep-rooted hostility of this Inspector-General of Public Instruction for the doctrines of the National Revolution. He betrays it by a more or less open but certainly a systematic obstructionism against all directives and all undertakings that issue from the National Revolution, whether in the form of official instructions or of the principles of moral and physical training of youth.

3. To consider only the manifestations of this spirit on his part which I have observed during the last few months, the list is already a long one. The most recent instances are altogether characteristic of an opportunist who has obviously been following the trend of world events and of (Part 2) a mentality definitely warped by dated intellectual disciplines and by political preferences which one feels are each day closer to reappearing openly. I refer, on the one hand, to the tendency which I note in N. CHARTON, in his supervision of secondary institutions, to obstruct the diligence of the administrative authorities by his effective and regular enforcement of the --ruling of the Governor-General of Indochina on 11 February, 1950, which on this point has fallen into desuetude; and on the other hand, to a most regrettable incident which recently occurred in a classroom in the Lycee of

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