Show HULL ASSAILS DARLAN LAVAL By Dy JOHN JOlIN A A. WASHINGTON June 14 UP uP- uP Mounting fears that France may plunge into an out all-out war against her former ally were ally Britain were believed believed be be- Saturday to have prompted Secretary of State Cordell Hulls Hull's latest blast against the Vichy governments government's governments government's governments government's gov gov- collaboration with Ger Ger- many Hull accused the Vichy regimes regime's Laval Darlan element of schemIng scheming scheming schem schem- ing to deliver France politically economically socially and militarily militarily militar militar- ily By to Adolf Hitler He refrained from naming Marshal Henri Philippe Philippe Phil Phil- ippe Detain etain as a member of that clique or as coauthor of the purported purported pur pur- ported scheme Envoy Answers Blast His newest broadside brought a sharp rejoinder from French Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- Gaston Henry Henry-Haye who said that in the task of trying to resurrect France and protect her empire peoples the French leaders know better than anyone else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where their duty lies Iles The increasingly vitriolic tone of Hulls Hull's warnings warnings and and Henry-Haye's Henry comments provided comments provided fresh evidence of the rapidly deteriorating relations relations rela rela- between this government and Vichy Most observers doubted however however how how- ever a diplomatic rupture was im Im- im- im 1 But they did believe Hulls Hull's latest I statement stemmed from new alarming news that might have been jeen transmitted from Vichy by U. U S. S Ambassador William D D. Leahy who conferred with Petain Thursday It was the third blast directed at Vichy by the United States In Ina Ina I a month President Roosevelt himself first appealed to the French people over the heads of their leaders to resist a German Franco-German rapprochement and in effect rist against those who were trying to sell Frances France's birthright to the German reich Hull Warns of Steps Hull then warned that any franco German G e r m a 8 n collaboration which makes France an instrument of aggression and oppression would bring by the United States That statement was steeped in diplomatic phraseology But Hull pulled no punches Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night He named former Vice Premier Pierre Laval Lavai ousted from the Pe- Pe an cabinet last list year and Admiral Jean Francois Darlan chief of the French Trench fleet and presently vice premier He also named Adolf Adoll Hit- Hit ler er He charged the Laval Darlan elements with selling seIling out to Hiter Hitler Hit- Hit ler er in a scheme to bring about Britain's downfall and give Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many control of the seas Raps Stand in Syria He charged Vichy with permitting permitting permit ting ing if not abetting expansion of German aggression in Syria yet resisting resisting resisting re re- re- re British efforts to prevent German actions there He charged Vichy with doing Germanys fighting in the Syria area of the general German ad ad- vance He charged Germany with taking taking taking tak tak- ing the initiative in Syria and with using France as a tool to start a conflict that not only pits former allies aIlles against each other other France France against Britain but which is In Inthe inthe inthe the nature of a civil war war pitting pitting Frenchman against Frenchman |