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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 5, No. 8. October 6, 1942

[Introduction]

"I wish for Germany's victory." (Pierre Laval, June 22nd, 1942, two months after becoming Chief of the Vichy Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs the Interior, and Information).

"The hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war." (Pierre Laval, August 11th, 1942).

With the arrival in New Zealand of M. Antoine de la Tribouille and his recognition by the New Zealand Government as Delegate of Fighting France, a strange situation has arisen. "The functions that M. de la Tribouille will exercise as Delegate in. New Zealand will include the issue of passports and visas and other administrative and legal formalities concerning Frenchmen who adhere to Fighting France," said the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand. "The New Zealand Government will continue in the future as in the past to treat only with the French National Committee in regard to matters in which the collaboration of Fighting France is involved or required, in particular concerning those Frenchmen and French possessions and territories [unclear: who] adhere to Fighting France"

These diplomatic [unclear: pron] by the Prime Minister glide over the fact that side by side with the Fighting French Delegation in Wellington there exists still a Consulate representing, in the person of M. Andre Pouquet, the Government of Vichy. It is an invidious position in which to place M. de la Tribouille, envoy of, an Ally and a signatory of the Washington declaration. It is the sort of thing which makes a people distrust its leaders, that slows down the war effort in bewilderment and weakens morale.