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

Dismiss Pouquet!

Dismiss Pouquet!

"It would be intolerable that the so-called realism which from Munich to Munich has led liberty right to the edge of the abyss, should continue to delude the earnest, and to betray the spirit of sacrifice. How persuade the people that all our future is in victory, dishonour is in capitulation, and that the path of duty is the way to glory, if by mischance our very Allies accept the neutralisation of France, as dictated by Hitler to Vichy, and recognise for the purpose of negotiations of things of interest my country, only the traitors who oppress the people and take their orders from the enemy?"

We have to believe in General de Gaulle if we are to believe that France is capable of resurrection. Else what has happened to the country that once illumined Europe and America with the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression and the ideals of freedom and equality? Therefore why cannot the Allies—and why cannot New Zealand lead the Allies hare—recognise the Committee of General de Gaulle as a Government de factor-After all, Franco's government was so recognised!

There is one path open to the New Zealand Government, one path honourable and loyal: in diplomatic language, to hand M. Pouquet his passport.