[On learning that the French Government had accepted German terms
for an armistice the U.K. Prime Minister, Winston S. Churchill,
appealed to Frenchmen to support the Allied cause and General de
Gaulle announced the formation of the French National Committee.

In Sydney a meeting was held on 25 June 1940 of about one hundred
French residents who drafted the following cablegram. (See
Melbourne Age, 24-26 June 1940.) The cablegram was sent through
the Prime Minister's Department.]

Without pretending to judge the decisions of the Bordeaux
Government, Frenchmen in Australia fully in accord with your
declaration answering your call and put themselves at your
disposal with their energies and their resources to continue the
fight to the end. [1]

FRENCH COLONY IN AUSTRALIA