Reel 17429 - Page 0674

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Reel 17429 - Page 0674

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1941/1945

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Public Domain

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image/jpeg

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fra

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t17429_0674

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From: Ottawa
To: Vichy
Dated: March 6, 1942
Rec'd: March 9, 1942

Message No. 112.

Evidently at the request of the authorities, the whole press explains that, in undertaking the bombing on March 3, Great Britain has demonstrated that she appreciates these hard necessities of the war, recognized (also) by General de GAULLE himself. One can be no more francophile . . . .

Rarely do the . . . have regrets for the (victims?) "whose numbers Nazi propaganda will try to exaggerate." "Now is the time of the great spring offensive. It is clear that London has given up all hope of obtaining satisfactory results via Vichy." (Montreal Star.)

"The British Government has evidently decided to treat France as an ally of Germany." (Globe and Mail.)

RISTELMUEBER

File No. D-777 R-371
SECRET
Examination Unit,
National Research Council
March 10, 1942