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300 WILL STAGE French MUSIC FESTIVAL
Annual Program to Be Held
At Broad Ripple High School Tonight.
Approximately 300 pupils from Broad Ripple High School and four grade schools will participate in the third annual Spring Music Festival 8L 8 o'clock tonight in the Broad Ripple auditorium. Pupils from Grade Schools 70, 80, 84 and 91 will combine in a 150-piece orchestra. Jack Henry will be ‘vocal soloist and Robert Bruner will play the violin. The high school string ensemble, composed of Robert Bruner, Marion Blakeslee, Elizabeth Murray, Carolvn Harvey, June Hartzell, Rhea McGoldrick and Glenna Reid, will play several numbers The program is sponsored by high school Cleff Club
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This is the last of three articles on France by Alfred Max, former
director of the Gallup Poll in France who has just arrived in this
country.
By ALFRED MAX Special Writer for the Institute of Public Opinion
IT HAS SOMETIMES been necessary for Marshal Petain, in his handling of Franco-German relations, to go much farther than he presumably wished to go in order to administer actual proof to the Germans of his good ‘will and desire to secure “collaboration” with Germany. Since a large part of the French colonial empire is in North Africa, alongside the Nazi base at Tripoli, the extent of “collaboration” between Germany and France could be a major factor in determining the outcome of the Bat-
tle of the Mediterranean.
To the French people it is axiomatic that Petain’s
“collaboration” is by no means sincere.
But such “collabo-
ration” must be given the appearance of sincerity in order to keep the Germans satisfied. For Petain must convince
the Nazi conquerors of the necessity of keeping important forces in French Africa, supposedly to repulse
possible attacks by the
British. One of the methods which Petain has found it convenient to use has been to have men acceptable to the Germans serve under as cabinet ministers. These have often been regarded suspicion abroad and even so in France. But Pefain never seems to consider them more than mere tokens for the Germans, and the French have come more and more to realize this fact For a very long time Pierre Laval, ‘who actually maintained ambiguous relations with the Gerwas, was Petain's ideal man. But it ‘was a close, and dangerous race as to who ‘would outsmart the other. When Petain decided to dismiss Laval, he had to soothe the Germans by putting another “friend” of Germany, Pierre Etienne Flandin, in Laval's place. Flandin did not succeed, however, in conciliating the Germans. who insisted on Laval's return to his former position Petain then tried to placate the Germans by dismissing several of
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his most trusted ministerial advisers who had opposed Laval and brought about his downfall. But he steadily refused to restore Laval to the Vice-Premiership. Instead, he gave that post to Admiral Darlan, head of the French fleet.
8 ” u DARLAN was acceptable to the Germans because of his supposedly strong anti-British policy. But, as long as Marshal Petain remains in power, his ministers are responsible to him only and Petain's ultimate motives are clear enough. Moreover, Darlin is an altogether different character from Laval. Whereas the latter was accused of ‘plotting with the Germans against Petain and France's best interests, there can be little doubt of Darlan’s loyalty to his chief, To the French public as a whole, the name of “traitor” seems less applicable to those who have chosen to fight alongside the British than to those in Occupied France or elsewhere who accept official positions at the hands of the Germans. While the Vichy ‘Government had Gen. De Gaulle court-mar-tialed and condemned to death, in absentia, for “treacherous be-
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havior,” that condemnation by no means reflects French opinion. In the view of most Frenchmen those who are fighting in de Gaulle's armies are setting a fine example for their country and are worthy of praise.
Even though they may like what de Gaulle’'s men are doing, de Gaulle himself suffers in the eves of the general public because of the unsuccessful Dakar episode, which cost more than a thousand French lives, ” = zo
The Dakar Incident
NUMEROUS explanations of the Dakar incident have been circulated in France, but none has been successful in wiping away the bad impression created at the start by this ill-fated attempt. It will be remembered that the ships carrving de Gaulle's forces engaged in combat against French fortifications at Dakar when this city refused to hand itself over, The French are proud to see the forces of “Free France” fight ‘with the British against the Germans and Ttaliams in Africa. But some of them wonder why it should be necessary to use these forces to take away pieces of the French
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ment. They believe the Government is doing its bit in resisting the Germans and could hardly issue orders to let the Empire pass over to de Gaulle without its whole policy crumbling To Petain, de Gaulle must be at
the same time a disobedient sub-
ordinate who ought ished, a gallant serves esteem but most an excellent German armistice commissions ‘We nead men, otherwise, our Empire will fall to de Gaulle, i. e., the British” is an excellent argument. But when the test came and de Gaulle tried to snatch Dakar from Vichy, there was little else to do than to make one's
to be punsoldier who dealso and forealibi for the
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To the French, this is one of the most difficult and unpleasant situations brought about by the of their own defeat. n ” ”
Weygand Loyal
ABOUT GEN. WEYGAND, the man in charge of the French African Empire, the greatest number of sensational reports have been circulated As is wunderstood by most Frenchmeh ih Africa, his policy is inspired first
: | of all by absolute loyalty to his | chief.
Gen. Weypand, it is assumed, will obey all orders coming from Marshal Petain. He ‘will hot take the lead in resuming the ficht on the British side unless Petain so orders But what if ynoecupied France is suddenly overrun by the Germans? Military experts believe it shall be overrun in case of a German attempt to invade Britain from the French coast, since the Germans could not then afford to let intelligence steal] through to Britain via unoccupied France In such circumstances ‘most Frenchmen believe it is a foregone conclusion that Gen, Wey-
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It may be wondered, if the ultimate aims of Petain and Weygand are to resist the Germans and, as is certainly the hope and the earnest intention of an increasing number of Frenchmen, to resume the fight at some point on the
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British side, why indeed Petain does not give his order right now, isntead of practicing his present dangerous game of politics. To this it may be answered that Petain has affixed his signhautre on the armistice convention and
that as long as this convention is | not violated by the Germans, he |
is not prepared to repudiate it on his own initiative. But it must also be saxd that the official view in this multer is certainly lagging far behind the general feeling of the population. It is by no means vet conceded by the Vichy government that the signing of the armistice ‘was an initial mistake which should be repaired. As days go by, however, popular pressure towards resisting the Germans is likely to grow until either the Germans will have to take coercive measure and occupy the whole of France, therek:y automatically starting resistance in the Empire, or, if the British gain ground in the general wa: situation, the ‘Germans will have to make concessions to a stiffening French Government, ‘which
will ‘ultimately find itself cn the |
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Subrosa Unrest
IN FRANCE today the question |
of resisting the Germans shadows all other issues.
This is why the country appears
over-
quiet and peaceful on the surface, |
although many aspects of the Vichy Government's domestic policies are highly distasteful to the average Frenchman. In its internal “reconstruction” policy, the Vichy Government has proceeded on the basis that France's defeat was due to the political regime prevailing in prewar France, The Parliament, democratic methods, and demagogy made for inefficiency, radicalism and ‘war, they argue. Hence a one-man rule has been set up, with skeleton-like institutions aiming at restoring a mini-
mum contact with public opinion, |
but without any check on Petain's powers. In local administration as well as in the civil service, all the men who had been connected with the preceding regime have been removed, while major left-wing politicians were sent to trial.
The common opinion is that French defeat ‘was in essence military, not political; that it was due to the obsolete methods of the French general staff and High Command, to the poor equip-
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By RICHARD LEWIS Nearly 5000 Indianapolis boys and | girls have entered the Indianapolis 'Times-City Marbles tournament, ac-
leording to the reports from 46 sec{{fons. Additional sections from the | Public Schools were to report today. Indications were that the 1941 [tournament, with its four-day vaca(tion trip to the Scripps-Howard Re{gional Marbles Tournament at Ashe(ville, N. C., as the grand prize, will [be the biggest in Indianapolis history. At least 2000 more boys and |girls ‘were expected to register tolday, tomorrow and Monday. The Marbles Tournament Com- { mittee, headed by Emil Rath, Pub{lic Schools Physicai Education Director, met at City Hall this morn{ing to review final plans for the tournament, which opens after {school Monday. All boys and girls were asked by | the Committee to watch the bulle-| tin boards for their respective | schools or community eenters for | the announcement of time and place | tof the sectionals. City Recreation Centers holding | {sectionals and their directors. as ah- | {nounced by H. W Middlesworth, | {Recreation Director, are: |
Brookside, Paul Haagsma and [Raymond Reid; Keystone, Ben] {Sealf; South Side Community Cen- | (ter, Gerald Hermsen and Frank | (Hopper; J. T. V. Hill, Ralph Kiser | {and Leo Floyd; Municipal, Theodore | [Kortepeter and James Reed; Chris- | [tian, Fay Wardwell and Gerald Cur- | (rier; Rhodius, C. Hawkins and Os-| |car White; Northwestern, Anthony {Watkins and Herman Holliday; | Eagle Creek, M. Donally and A. Burns, | Parochial school sections and di[rectors, as announced by the Rev. Pr. Richard Langen, Catholic Youth | Organization director, are: | SS. Pater and Paul Cathedral, the | Rev. Fr. ‘Cornelius Sweeney; St. | Joan of Are, the Rev. Fr. Harry { Hoover; St. John, the Rev. Fr. Josleph Beechem; Holy Trinity, the Rev. Fr. Robert Hartman; Little Flower, | [the Rev. Fr. Richard Kavanaugh; | Holy Rosary, the Rev, Fr. Joseph | Brokhage; Our Lady of Lourdes, the | [Rev. Fr. Louis Gootee; St. Cather- | [ine’s, the Rev. Fr. Paul English; St. {Philip Neri, the Rev. Fr. Hillary | Meny; Assumption, the Rev. Fr. | | Bernard Burgert; Sacred Heart, the | [Rev. Pr. Miles O'Toole; Holy Cross, |
ment for which the army leaders | were responsible to an even greater | extent than the political leaders. |
Most politicians had voted all war appropriations but were kept in the dark as to how these ap-
propriations were used because of |
the “secrecy” pertaining to all matters dealing with national defense. ” 5
” Living in Hope CERTAINLY POLITICS played its part in the disaster. French democracy worked badly and the French people are painfully conscious of it. But they look towards the future for some kind of improved democracy, with greater and more stable executive power than there was in France—where the average life-time of a cabinet
was little more than three months |
—rather than a Fascist State.
As vet, however, the people feel | that the time is not ripe for hold- |
ing a general election and voting a hew constitution. This will be done after the ‘war, they hope, when the prisoners will have returned and France has united and made free again For the solution of their domestic, as well as their external problems, the ¥Yrench place great hopes in the kind of peace that
been |
may be negotiated at the outcome |
of the war. They hope that their country will have a right to speak at the peace conference, but that it will have earned this right by again taking an active part in the conflict at some later stage ‘of the war. This day is still in the distance, they feel. In any case the spirit at the peace conference, Frenchmen hold, will not be that of 1918, when France and England tried to sidetrack American proposals for the organization of the world.
As a matter of fact, mosi people in France hope from the bottom of their hearts that the United States will assume the leadership
in world reconstruction and apply | those human principles which |
stand sharply. against the ruthJess ‘methods ‘which parts of France are how experiencing at the hands of their German con-
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