Mr. Churchill gave two days to internal affairs
and had lunch with Prince Umberto.
Mountbatten has been in London and
returned to Ceylon.
The ban on the protected areas in South and
East England is being lifted today.
Grisewood 25/8/1944. 6.= pm.
The Germans report a withdrawal up the
Rhone Valley. Our bombers attacked
North Germany. In a last effort to clean the
Germans from Paris the Parisians
were called to the barricades.
There is still silence about General Patton's
push to Troyes.
Our paratroops are in the mouth of the Seine
opposite Le Havre. The strong points of the port
of Marseille are being attacked.
The Americans are closing in on a German
force of some strength near Avignon.
Today an agreement was signed between
the British and United States Governments
and the French Provisional Government
about the administration in liberated
France. Mr. Eden signed for Britain and
the French Commissioner for France.
The German people are now being told what the
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