C ree French Scorn For Indo-China
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Officials
Noumea, Feb. 20.
RADIO-Saigon (Indo-China) at the present time shows to what lengths of degradation some French officials will sink in their desire to hang on to their jobs.
Governor Sautot the other day replied to what he called “these orators of Radio-Saigon”, who repeat the old slander that New Caledonians have “sold themselves to the English”. He did not handle them lightly—nor did he need to, for the tragic consequences of Franco- Japanese collaboration in Indo-China are patent to everyone in the Pacific.
If you are a Frenchman, you can see it all clearly as treason towards France and her Pacific Colonies, and you have the galling feeling that help, in the most underhand and cowardly way, is being given by these Vichy officials to the hereditary enemy.
South Sea Dweller (soliloquizing) : Don’t like the look of this storm, much —doubt if the old roof will stand up to it. I suppose Uncle Sam’s on the way, with a new roof—but I wish he’d hurry!