Two Views Of July 14
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WHILE the “Men of Vichy” were repudia ting France’s National Day (July 14, when the phrase “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” was born), the Free French people of New Caledonia were celebrating it with more than usual fervour.
“It may please the Men of Vichy to erase July 14 from our national calendar,” said Governor Henri Sautot, “but we Free French continue to proclaim the in tangibility of the past with all its glories.
To disown our great French Revolution, which established democratic liberties and the rights of man and of citizen, in unthinkable. Now destiny’s finger points to the irremediable defeat of Hitlerism, and soon all sons of France will join their Free French brothers and the heroic British and Russian armies in an aveng ing revolt.”
The crowd fervently applauded and sang the “Marseillaise”.