The Weekly Gazette

A Promise???
J.
As was widely expected, the French government agreed to Hitler's harsh peace terms, but a considerable segment of French opinion has disavowed the government's action. French troops in the colonies will fight on-but the capitulation of the mother country, and the surrender of French industrial areas to the Reich, has terribly weakened Allied strength. Yet all the military authorities have not given up the British cause as lost.
Taking the British Isles is obviously far more difficult than taking France. The British fleet still rules the waves—and England has close to 2,000,000 men under arms.
It came as something of a relief to observers here to find that, under the terms of the German-French armistice, the French fleet is not to be used against England, but is to be interned for the duration of hostilities. However, as past experience has grimly proven, German promises must be taken with many grains of salt. And there is a joker in the peace agreement -the last article says that if France does not live up to the bargain she has made, Germany will be free to consider the treaty a dead letter. Germany is to be the judge of whether or not France respects it. So few authorities would be greatly surprise if German-manned French warships sailed against England.