Hier soir un ami m'a envoyé un lien vers cet article intéressant sur le site de la BBC. Son chapeau dit:
A British general kept Winston Churchill and Free French leader Charles De Gaulle in the dark about a top secret 1942 plan to arm Vichy France, recently discovered documents reveal.


Et celui de l'émission de radio dont voici la présentation:
In 1942, the Vichy regime ruled a large part of France, after striking a deal with Hitler when France fell in June 1940. This left France officially neutral, with a severely limited 'Armistice Army'. Yet British troops were fighting Vichy forces in Madagascar, as they had done in Syria in 1941. France, it seems, was more neutral towards Germany than towards Britain; here its collaborationist regime, under Marshall Petain, was viewed with contempt by Winston Churchill and the British people, who instead supported Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Free French. Yet in this edition of Document, Mike Thomson presents evidence that, not only were the British Chiefs of Staff meeting with representatives of the Vichy army to discuss supplying them with arms, but they were doing so behind the backs of Prime Minister Churchill and the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden.

Avec: H. Rousso, R. Paxton, J.-L. Crémieux-Brilhac,...

(Merci à Olivier G. pour l'information)

RC

PS: Par manque de temps, je n'ai pas encore pu écouter l'émission (durée: 30 min). Cette contribution est une information.