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Ar Bneea Strenb confidential! Gruope Rundfunk Fur für den personalen Hundfek- und Helldienst. Dienstwendung! Jn own responsibility 0+1T/L8 to destroy! Test no. 0.d ...... ( § 353 c RSTGB ) 0nes/at Reports of 23 October 194o. L o n d o n - Czech. The British Air Vaffe uné Plotte carried out operations in Deutechland and Jtalien from Hamburg to the Roton Sea yesterday. Jm Hoten Meer followed the brit, cruiser Kimberley an ital. Destroyer and blew it up. Another brit. destroyer brought 2 guns to the Italian coastal battery to silence. During further operations in the Red Eeer a British aircraft scored a full hit on another ital . Destroyer. Before the Holl. A British coast was damaged by a British plane and an enemy cargo steamer. The conference between Hitler, Ribbentrop and Laval kept the strictest silence. Further attention is paid to the fact that this meeting was so sonellly followed by Churchill's speech to the French people. lan assumes that this discussion will have extensive consequences for life in the non-occupied part of France. On the one hand, it is assumed that Hitler wants to force the French government to participate in the actions against England and the Usa, but on the other hand it is explained that Hitler certainly knows that this would have very bad consequences for the German and French governments. Even before Churchill's radio address, many people spoke of a resurgence of the national spirit in France. Lan believes that Germany and Jtalien, due to their weakness at sea, would not be able to get the French fleet into their hands. It is to be assumed that the discussions will be about how far the French authorities will be in the future. It is possible that De tschland and Jtaltet France will follow certain concessions, e.g. the transfer of the French government to Paris, in order to take possession of the french plot as an asset. Hitler may want to make these assurances, in order to preserve, at least in the extreme, the appearance of willingness to take part in the assignment of the fleet, Hitler shall have the intention to promise to France for this purpose that, except for Elaass and Lorraine, Nice, Tunis and Djibuti, no more detachments will be made from France. However, it is clear that Laval Hitler will have to explain that Petain is against any action on the side of Germany, that the armed forces would defend themselves from taking part in an action against England, and that the public opinion is most strongly against cooperation with Germany, which aims at weakening England, thereby destroying Prankreich's hope of regaining his position as a great power. Boudoin said in a speech that the government would wink to do everything that would make a just peace with Germany possible and that within this framework there would also be a cession of Alsace and Lorraine. Loch did not suggest in any way that the cessions of the French warships would also fall within the framework of this just peace.