The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-13
DE- CAULLE ASKS
VOICE IN PEACE

PARIS, Sept. 12.-tR-As Presi.
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill met in Quebec and pre-
sumably considered Europe's i'm
mediate future, Gen. Charles de
Gaulle told Paris and the world
tonight that France wanted full
participation in discussion n d
adoption of plans for conquered
Germany and liberated Europe.
In an address to an assembly of
the National Council of Resistance
De Gaulle declared:
I'VE believe it is in the better
interests of all mankind that the
arrangements which tomorrow will
govern the fate of conquered Ger
many should not be discussed and
adopted without France, because
there is no power more interested
than France in what concerns the
neighbor with which she has had
for more than 1000 years to occupy
herself more than with any other.
eff there were any persons any,
where who doubted what this op-
pressed nation wanted or its ca
pacity to handle itself, I suppose
h ey are now definitely enlight-
ened," the general told cheering re-
sistance leaders and followers who
crowded the big auditorium Of
Chaillot palace for his first major
address since the liberation.
De Gaulle reiterated the inten-
ton of the provisional government
as soon as war prisoners and de-
portees can be returned home to
hold an election by universal suf-
frage of 'all men and women OF
our country" French women have
never had the right to vote.
De Gaulle declared that in future
battles for Germany's defeat and
in the occupation itself 1--WE intend
to participate in as large measure
as possible.
He reported the Germans still
had a hold in IS of Frances "a
and he said the bet
ter part of Frances communica-
tons were still "paralyzed" from
the ravages of war.
Recent rigors, he said, had high
lighted her failings of the past
negligence, mediocrity and injus-
tice which we have practiced or to-
Grated sufficiently to have made
France resolve to take Ii ew
road"
''To sum UP the principles which
France intends to adopt as basis
for national activity we shall say
that while assuring the maximum
possible liberty to all and favoring
in every way spirit of enter
prise, France wants things to be
conducted so that special interests
will always be forced to give way
to common interests; so that the
great sources of common wealth
will be exploited and directed not
for the profit of the few but for
the advantage of all; so that the
specially privileged groups which
have weighed SO heavily on the
conditions Of men and even on ma
,ional policy shall be abolished once
and for all; and that finally each
If Frances sons and each of its
daughters shall be able to live, =
work and bring up their children =
n security and dignity \
The living conditions of French 4
must improve, De Gaulle
'aid, along with growing produc-
ion.
Certainly it is within the states
,rovince," he said, to requisition
certain great public services or NJ
certain enterprises while the ma
ion settles the way in which they "
hall be used. 0
Certainly the state has the duty b.
# turning back into the national
PURSE the guilty riches of those W
Who worked for the enemy tie
De Gaulle. trim in two star W
GENERALS uniform without decora- of
ions, was given long ovation by q
he 1000 people crowding the audi m
orium. til