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Let's Face The Facts
GENERAL SIR WESTON' MARRIS,
a highly -placed officer of •the
General Staff visiting New Zeal-
and on duty.
LORNA MARRIS, his pretty, luxury-
loving daughter.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
MISS HI•LDA .HARRIS; sister of the
General, acco npanying him to
New Zealand and giving Lorna
such supervision as a high-spirit-
ed girl will tolerate.
CHAPTER XVI
KEEPING WATCH
"Well,, this is reallyvery comfort-
able!" said Miss Marris, at half -past
five that evening. `I'm not so sure
that I'm' sorry that we came over to-
day, at all. Mrs, Shane is a dear
creature, but it's a rest not to be
entertained all the time!"
The winding, soaring road had
brought them to Kaikoura; the coun-
try hotel had done its best for them,
and she and Lorna were 'sharing a
large comfortable room with a wide
verandah overlooking the garden. It
was only a small town set on the wild
coast, to British eyes absurdly far
from anywhere; but Miss Marris
looked backwaxd to three days of
peace,. lying in the sun.
Lorna, however, was increasingly
on edge.
Here they were' = to -morrow was
the 28th. • But suppeee Hawksford
didn't wait until the 28th to "deliver
the fishing rods"? Suppose he slip-
ped out any time during the night.
He might be going to deposit his in-
formation at Gulliver's Bay to be cal-
led for. '
She had to keep an eye on him all
the 'time. She found out where his
room was when they first arrived at
the hotel.
"And I suppose you have accommo-
dation for our chauffeur?" she said
to the manageress, when they were
shown upstairs.
"We've given him a room in the
other wing," the woman informed her.
"Whereabouts is that?" said Lorna,
looking vague.
"It's over the yard there — the
second window on the upstairs floor."
They were passing a window on the
landing, and the woman pointed it
out to her. Lorna was able to see it
on the other side of the yard—to see
the window open at the bottom, and
through it glimpse a boy bringing
Hawksford's suitcase in to the room.
So far so good. She knew where he
was.
Miss Marris was stiff after the
drive, and decided to go straight to
bed; Lorna was aching, too, the
bruises from her accident had come
out black and blue all over her, and
she had to wear long sleeves to cover
her elbow, But she would not go to
bed; they had the evening meal sent
up on a tray.
"You're giving the chauffeur some
dinner, I suppose?" said Lorna to
the girl who brought it up,
"Yes, miss—he's in the dining room
now," replied the girl, looking some-
what surprised.
"Oh!" said Lorna, "Good!"
Miss Marris glanced curiously at
her from the bed.
"All right, aunt," thought Lorna,
as she helped herself doubtfully to
boiled pumpkin. "Think what you
like. Think I'm anxous for his wel-
fare, if you want tog How different
you would look if you knew the
truth "
She found that she could see Hawks -
ford's window from the bathroom, and
haunted the bath until, at eight
o'clock, she saw the light go on be-
hind his blind.
"Ah," she thought, "he is not go-
ing out!" She watched a while, and
saw his shadow on the blind as he
moved about the room. He came near
to it, taking off his coat, in silhouette:
She felt she was safe for the night—
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VIM
CAPTAIN ALLEN RICHARDS, the
General's Aide -de -Camp, who is
engaged to Lorna.
T. 11. HAWKSFORD, chauffeur to
the General's party. A New
Zealander, "handsome in a rug-
ged, arresting fashion."
the affair were over once and for all.
But she did. She had been thor-
oughly tired by the adventures of the
last few days, and she fell soundly
asleep within half an hour.
She wakened to see sunlight stream-
ing in, the maid pulling the curtains,
and her aunt putting on her bed
jacket.
Lorna sprang out of bed, ignoring
a dark cup of tea at her bedside, and
hurried into the bathroom, where she
looked out of the window. The blind in
Hawits£ord's room was up. Lorna
peered into the yard; no sign of him
there. She stood irresolute, and al-
most decided to find the maid and ask
vapidly: "I suppose you're giving.
some breakfast to the chauffeur?"—
but as she came out of the bathroom
a window across the passage gave
her a view of the hotel - garage, and
she glanced out.
These. was Hawksford, in his shirt
sleeves, washing down the car, his
hair hanging over hisbrow, water
flashing on his bare tanned arms in
the sunshine.
With a gasp of relief she went back
to bed, drank her morning tea and
then rose and dressed quickly. She
didn't wantto be out of the way a
moment longer than was necessary.'
The paper in Hawksford's notebook
had said "the afternoon of the 28th;'
but she was afraid at any moment
he might slip away.
•
"I didn't really care anything about,
it!" she said. The truth of the state-
ment was really rather shocking when
she realized it. She had actually
hardly given him a •single thought
since he left Christehurch. Her con-
science pricked her sharply.
"My poor Allenl" she said. "Have
you been worrying? But really I
thought everything was quite all
right. I didn't notice anything at the
dance! About that girl, you moan,
and, yourgoing off in the ear? I
didn't care. You know we don't both-
er about things like that."
"I wouldn't play about like that if
I didn't feel that there's srnathing
wrong! I feel that, that y u're sold,
* * * y, *
While they were at breakfast in the
dining -room, the waitress brought in
a message.
"Would either of them be wanting
the car that afternoon, because Mr.
Hawksford wanted to put it in the
workshop to have the brakes tight-
enecL"
"No," said Miss Marris. "I shan't
want to go anywhere in it. I had
enough of it yesterday, Will you want
it, Lorna?"
"Definitely not," said Lorna, not
daring to lift her eyes from her plate.
Her heart was pounding as the girl
went away with the message. The re -
gust came as the confirmation of
every suspicion, Hawksford was mak-
ing certain of his freedom for the
afternoon so as to get to Gulliver's
Bay—and to Gulliver's. Bay, without
the slightest question, she would be
following him.
Lorna pottered about the hotel and
the garden for the next two hours,
with a restlessness anyone might
have wondered at if they had not
known she was on the watch to see
that Hawksford did not give her the
slip.
Then, just before eleven, with the
unexpectedness, and something of the
shock of a bombshell, she was witting
on the veranda in front of the hotel
when she saw a car draw up at the
door — and out of it stepped Alien
Richards.
CHAPTER XVII
"WHEN WILL YOU MARRY ME?"
"Lorna, darling("
_ She met Allen Richards with an
astonished face as he came, leaping
up the veranda steps, his cloth cap
in his hand.
"Back so soon!" she said. Her first
unconsidered reaction was one of dis-
may. How would she get away to
follow Hawksford in the afternoon?
"Yes, your father is still over at
Address to the Men and Women of Canada
BY
MR. PERCY J. PHILIP
Until Septemper, 1940, Chief of the Paris Bureau of "The New York
Times," and now Canadian, correspondent of that newspaper,
Over a National Network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Following is the full !text of the
radio .speech delivered by Percy J.
Philip in the aeries "Let's Face the
Facts" on Sunday night; Dec. 8:
"Good -evening. •
I am' going to talk to you about
those people who have already lost.
the war in which we axe still engaged.
There are many millions of them --
Poles, Czechs, Dutch, Belgians,
Danes, Luxenubujrgers, Norwegians
and French—all of them decent ordin-
ary people like ourselves, who are
now living each day, and go to bed
at night, fearful of heart and hungry
ofstomach wondering what is going
to happen to them next, and when
they will be able to work and to laugh
again happily and freely—for they
are in prison. I shall speak to you
especially of France where I lived
for twenty-four years and which I
left only last September.
I would sincerely like to be able
to tell you that the German, occupa-
tion of all these countries has
brought happiness to their peoples,
for happiness in human life is to be whose etout heart and body are at
Welcomed froth whatever direction it the head of the column, When France
may come. But it is not possible to
believe that these people in Poland was' wavering' in the last war, at the
and Lorraine who have been thrust time Russia collapsed and before the
out of their homes, in many cases • United States came in, it was Clem -
into miserable concentration camps, enceau who by his personal magnet -
to make room for Germans are, or ism and will -power rallied the coun-
can ever be, happy; that these free- try and gave us all victory:
dons loving French, Danish and Nor-, No Olemenceau In France
wegian peasants and those stout;
burghers of Antwerp and Amster -
Alas, this time there was no Clem -
dam who lived by trading all over ,eneeau in France, and Germany had
the world, and did good'in the world ` Adolf Hitler. When that tremendous
by their trade, are now, as Herr Hit- ! battle began on May 10th with the
ler thinks they should be, pleased at treacherous', immoral, - everlastingly
the prospect of living in the new shameful invasion of Holland and
world which he is going to make in Belgium, France didn't lack only air -
the Nazi image. f
planes and tanks and guns in su
In the Nazi image! , ficient quantities' to stern that fearful
avalanche of fire and steel which the
Bavarian Pastorale I Germans unloosed—she lacked men
One autumn day, three. years ago, of decision, of firm purpose and of
!inspiration, who could rally her still
T was driving through a very lovely ,
Bavarian valley. There was a jolly: uncertain but courageous soldiers and
little trout' stream bubbling down; turn then overnight into victorious
through the meadows from the hills, ; heroes as Carnot did, as Napoleon
din and as Clemenceau dict
The sun was pleasantly warm and;
there was a delightful freshness in' It was for that reason that France
the air. It was pretty good to be fell. There are some people on this
'
alive and a pretty good place to beside of the Atlantic, a number of
alive in. I stopped the car to enjoy. Frenchmen among them, who go
it, and as I was sitting on the bank! searching for other reasons, like hens
of that little stream drinking in the; searching for grains of corn in a
hirci -song and the cool smell of the Pile of straw, and crowing with sat-
gzase and the trees, I heard a harsh isfaction when they find one. That
kind of industry is a
voice behind me shout an order. It; waste of time.
was a harsher voice than a country -1 Lesson For Us
man would ever use to fall his dog Let us who are still fighting
or to demand a stronger effort from g g look
his horse. Dropping suddenly into • squarely at the facts. France lost
that peace it made me start. I turn: the war because she was disunited,
ed and saw four men walking across without discipline and, strong leader -
a field. They were young, strong' ship, and because her army and ours'
men—farm workers I thought. And , were numerically far inferior to that
then I saw a fifth man behind them,' great allied force which Foch com-
He wore a blue and: green uniform . znanded in 1918. On the other hand,
and carried a rifle. These our men the enemy was disciplined to the
were German political prisoners and point of complete unity, armed to the
the fifth was their Nazi guard. utmost necessity by the tremendous
What was their crime? They had labour—sixty, seventy, and even
believed that life should be lived in a eighty hours a week—of the German
different way from that in which men and women in the factories, and
where not fanatically inspired, a s
Herr Hitler conceives it. They had � many were and are, by that "wicked
possibly said what they thought, just man' Adolf Hitler, its obedience unto
as you do when you think that your death was assured by fear of the
Government does not do as you think Gestapo. There never was a more
it should. They may have wanted powerful armed force in the world
to worship in the way their fathers than that which crushed France in
had done, in a way Herr Hitler dis- May and June and sent us scurrying
approves of. And there they were home from Dunkirk.
Lorna!"
"Cold!„
"Yes, cold to mel Sometimes 1 feel
you don't really care for me at all!"
"Oh, but I • do, Allen, I do!" Nor
conscience insisted that she should
protest it. Somehow she had so much
else to think about, so much oa her
mind that she didn't feel what she
said at all.
"Thera say when you'll marry me,
darling! I've come all the -way from
Christchurch to get it settled! I just
had to come up and see you!"
She was confused, wondering
whether she ought to tell hint about
all the other things, which were prey-
ing on her mind.
"You're in such a hurry!" she said
lamely, "Let me think!"
"But I've got to leave again in
half -an -hour,"
"You're going back to town"?
"Yes, I must be there by four -
thirty. I have to fix up some thing's
for your father before I leave on the
'ferry tonight to meet hint at Welling-
ton in the morning."
"Oh, I see!"
Then he would be gone and she
would be able to get to Gulliver's Bay
in the afternoon after all and: it
wasn't necessary to tell him. She
struggled with a sense of disloyalty
about not telling him, but she felt site
must have the situation in hand be-
fore she told anyone.
"What is the matter?" Richards
Iasked suddenly, as he stared at her
i tense face. "You're not yourself."
The queer look in his eyes made
her pull herself together quickly.
"I was thinking—about when could
the be married!"
he was certainly staying in, Then his . the islands. I came back yesterday to
shadow put a hand behind and drew fix up some things in Christchurch
something from a hip pocket— for him; so I rushed up to .see you
Something ---1 here. Darling, I felt I had to see you!"
Lorna stared at the shape on the He seemed so worried and upset,
blind and quivered uneasily. The that she fancied at once he had learn.-
thing held in the shadowy hand was ed something about Hawksford and
exactly the shape of a gun. His two the espionage, and had come to tell
hands came together, lifting the her.
thing, and his face was bent—exactly 1 She asked with a dread she toudd
as a man bends his face to examine hardly explain:
the ammunition in a pistol, The gum- "What is the matter?"
shape came into view again, unenis- "Let's go somewhere where we can
thimble, held in one hand, and then be quiet!" he replied.
Hawksford's whole shadow flashed "In here." Lorna drew him into
out of view, Lorna stood dumbly the Commercial_ Room, with its lino -
watching, for five — seven minutes. covered floor, and its 'sober •armchairs.
The light did not go out, and she
aeeemed that he was still there.
But the sight of the gun—and sur-
ely it wars a gun. had given her a
horrid little shock. Yes, this affair
was serious, serious and dangerous.
A man playing games such as Hawks -
Ile took her hand and, drew her on
to a settee by the window.
"1 came because I felt I must!
Lorna, when will you marry me?"
The question was so unexpected'
that she stared in astonis'hnient.
"Marry you?" She struggled to
ford was playing had his liberty, his adjust herself to the situation. -
very life at stake. "When I left you in Christchurch
"It's bad for you to soak for so long last week I felt things were ?not as
in the bath," said Miss Marris, when they should' be! I know I • behaved
Lorna went back to the room. Lorne. stupidly at . tha t dance -I felt you
made no reply, but went silently to might think sol I wondered what you
bed. She felt she would never sleep ; were thinking, all the time while I
until the risks and uncertainties of was away!"
fusion and hunger of the years that
followed, the German people turned,
reluctantly, but finally, under the
compulsion of propaganda and fear
to the leadership of that phenomenon,
Adolf Hitler.
Listen to how Mr. Winston Church-
ill describes him: "This wicked man,
the repository and •`embodiment of
many soul-destroying •hatreds, this
monstrous product of former wrongs
and shames;"
In that Olympian language the
British Prime Minister tells the
whole story. He does not abuse the
German leader and call him names.
He describes, which is much more
deadly, the kind of man he is: "this
embodiment of soul-destroying hat-
reds, this monetrous product of for-
mer wrongs and, shames."
The French, who always love a
leader, were leaderless, and, while it
may be a fine thing to feel that one
is fighting for an ideal like Democ-
racy, Liberty -whatever one cares to
call it, it is an even better thing to
feel that one is following a man
two ounces of butter every eight
days and the ground chestnuts and
maize which must noW do service for
coffee.
C'rueity Of Conquerors
That is not all. She has no coal to
keep her warm. Gas and electric light
are restricted to a few hours a day.
Even worse she can get no news from.
those of her sons and: nephews who
are among those two million French
prisoners of war in Germany or from
those of her family who live in the
unoccupied hart of France. Just think
of the cruelty of that deeision. Since
July 29 no letters, telegrams or mes-
sages of any kind can be sent front
one part of France into the other and
hundred's of thousands of families
have been living without any news
Whatever of their nearest and dearest
for over six months.
And now Hitler has piled this new
monstrous outrage on conquered
France. As he did in Alsace, he has
turned seventy thousand good Lor-
rainers out of their homes, pell-mell
with a suit -case and thirty dollars of
all their possessions, Their rich
farms, their industries, their busi-
nesses built up through long patient
years have been stripped from them
to be given to Germans so that, for-
sooth, the .problem of the Rhineland
shall be settled forever.
What nonsense. Joan of Arc was
from Lorraine and she wasn't Ger-
man. And then didn't Hitler build
his whole career on the alleged in-
justices to Germany of the Treaty of
Versailles? How then can he justify
this far greater injustice' than was
ever done to Germany?
"We could be married any time—
her° in New Zealand, before we go
hone!" he said.
A sort of fright gripped her. She
remembered the things her aunt had
said to her at Hanmer about Hawks -
ford, the element of truth in them!
Her conscience administered an ex-
cruciating jab.
"Not here — there's your work for
father. But we'll get married in
London when we get home in March,
if you like," she forced herself 10 say.
"Will we?" He seized her hand
eagerly as she rose, and again there
was that dullness in her which seem-
ed t° stake his urgency ring false in
her cars. Wily dict his emotions make
her feel the unwilling spectator of a
kind of play?
"Yes, of course! We always intend-
ed to really, didn't we?" she said.
"I know, but when we were at the
Shanes' you seemed to throve some
doubt on it, didn't you?"
"I may have, :but I really didn't
mean anything by it."
"So you can't blame me for earning
up here to get it settled. And now
it is settled, definitely?" He got up
hastily, and put his hands on her
shoulders.
"London in March?"
"Absurd creature to be so anxious
about t!" said Lorna with an effort
to attain her usual flippancy,
He swept iter into his arms with a
hurried sort of movement and plant-
ed a kiss on her forehead. Now it
was settled, she was relieved to find
he didn't seem to want to dwell on
the emotional side of it.
"Where is your aunt? Let's tell
her! Let's have a celebration." ,
They found Miss Marris, who wad
writing lettere in the private sitting
room on the floor above.
"My deal• boy!" cried Miss Marris,
when they went in. "This is a sur-
prise. Is Weston here, too?"
"No," said Richards, smiling, "I've
come up alone --anal only for half an
hour, I'm afraid!—to settle a small
matter that has needed to be settled.
for some time. We fixed now, isn't
it, Lorna?" His manner was gay and
lively; he seemed very pleased, and
Lorna did her beet to appear at ease.
going to work in the fields with a It is for us evho are still fighting
man with a rifle behind them.
I suddenly belt sick. That lovely this war, if we want to win, ta lesson instead of wasting time learn
little valley disgusted mo. I got into.
criticizing other's and that lesson is
my car and did not stop until I reach- surd that we will have to putevery-
ed the bridge at Strasbourg and came y
again into France. thing we have. of Courage, of work,
I of skill, of loyal obedience and of
The France That Was i sacrifice into the task of beating
that tremendous force for evil which
France; what a pleasant land it Herr Hitler has built up and holds
was to live in, There every man and ready to strike at us again.
woman had certainly freedom enough ; We are still free—but these people
to say what he and she liked, to ' of France, of Belgium, of Holland
criticize what they didn't like. There and all these other countries are liv-
was perhaps a little too much of that ing day after clay in the presence of
freedom and not enough self-imposed their conquerors, Can you imagine
discipline. But then every French what their feelings are, what yours
man and women felt that France was : would be?'
not as good as it should be. They;
were all, impatient for improvement•' Paris In The Spring
There were those who thought that An American friend of mine told
Communism was the right remedy. me recenty that on that June morn-
Others- wanted' the Kingdom. back ing when the Germans occupied Paris
again and were pretty vociferous in he was walking to his office through
demanding it. There were those who the streets w!iieh were deserted ex -
saw moral, and every other kind of sept for German troops armed with
restoration in Fascist discipline. And i rifles and machine guns. As he turn -
then, of course, these doctrinal dif• ; down by a cd' into the rue de la Bostic he saw
ferences were narrowest little old lady come out of her
many of their partisans into rather house. She had, her marketing basket
violent quarrels about whether the
"200 families" or the leaders of the nl her shop int starting to do her
to -
Left Popular Front were the worse morning shopping. As she. Came 'enemies of their country, wards him he saw her stop and look
towards the end of the street. There
Where Germany Got Ahead was surprise and alarm in her face.
Probably she had never imagined
Behind all this quarreling there that this could happen to her—just
was really a common desire to serve as you do not believe that it can ever
France, but, in that critical moment, happen to you. Timidly she came to-
ne strong leader arose to unite and, wards my friend. Site had probably
direct all these seemingly contend- .never before in: her life accosted a
ing forces. The men of the Third stranger. "Monsieur," she said, "is
Republic who had survived the last; that a German soldier?"
great war were not up to the task. I Just where the street on which she
They fumbled and hesitated. That Iived enters the Champs Elysees
was where Germany got ahead — j there was a young German soldier
mucic more than in ,any other way. t standing beside a machine-gun, "Yes
From the sorrow and . misery of the Madame," my friend. answered, "That
defeat of 1918, and from the con- is a Germane soldier."
Suddenly, disconcertingly, the tears
I
leaped) into that little,old, lady's eyes
She adopted her usual smiling cyni- and started pouring down her cheeks.
cism. ,"Merci, Monsieur," she whispered,
"I don't know why he became so for native 'politeness did; not desert
Hitler's New World
To make a new world? Hitler's
new world. Is that how it is going
to be made? If it is, it will be a
world filled with new bitter hatreds,
far deeper even than those Hitler has
nourished in his _heart and, instilled
into his people. Its statesmen's pol-
icies will be dreams of vengeance and
its ambitions will be violent and evil.
Ohyes, there was plenty that was
wrong with the old world. It was
just as men make it and they are
always imperfect workers. But we
did seem to be getting somewhere
and surely the interest and fun, and
perhaps even the meaning of living,
is not so much in accomplishment as
in the effort to make the world a
better place to live in, imperfectly
of course, for life is always, chang-
ing its form, but all together; help-
fully and with faith, hope, and
charity.
What impertinence it is for this
man who never did an honest day's
work in his life—a failure from the
Munich bread-line—to think that he
can shatter the world to bits "and
then remould it nearer to the hearts
desire," sowing dragon's teeth of
hatred, spoiling the life of that little
olcl lady in the rue de la Bootie and
of so many millions of others.
These four men going to wont in
the Bavarian fields, with an armed
guard behind them because they- had
dared to think for themselves, —
that is what Hitler's new world would
be like.
And how is he getting on with his
conquered countries? From Norway
to the Pyrenees there's nothing but
ill -will, resistance and sabotage. The
Fuhrer has not won a single heart.
Even those Austrians who welcomed
him into their country now rue the
day. The Norwegians, Dutch, and
Belgians, who hoped against hope
that they might avoid being drawn
into the conflict, are living only for
the time when their compatriots
fighting in our armies will return
victorious. The French? Oh what a
thorny difficult problem that is to.
understand, with that duality of aim
which there is within the Vichy Gov -
ailment. On the one side it is sought
to make a cleaner, better, healthier
France and on the other there are
those who in their anxiety to "co-
operate" with the Germans are will-
ing to boy very low, to connive at,
even to copy, their worst methods.
anxious about it! We always intended her, and she slipped back into her
home.
to be married in London in, Mardi!" That was nearly six months ago.
"But it's quite definite.now, alms;Sinee then that little old lady has
lutely definite!" Richards cried. I seen the German soldiers march
"Definite," Lorna wished that he every day up the Champs' Elysees
would not keep using the word; she with their band punctually at twelve
o'clock. She has seen them in cafes
was so confused by everything else and in shops—buying up everything
she had to worry about that she felt with pony money to send! home, um -
almost trapped. But he was right, til now Chore is nothing left for any -
of course, to get it settled; she could one to buy. She as, had to stand
see how right it was from her aunt's long hours line outside the provision
shops to get a ration of bread, three
reaction. • quarters of a pound of meat a week,
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) a'°quarter of a pound of rice a month,
France Fighting On
Let us avoid getting into a discus-
sion and take note of only a few
facts, Does it not seem that it is the
former of these efforts which is gain-
ing strength? Marshal Petain who
stands for 'decency and uprighteous-
noss in the new regime is now being
oheered when and wherever he goes
around the unoccupied territory and
the shouts of "Vive la Francel" ring'
out louder, more encouragingly each
time he does or says something in
protest against Nazi encroaohmen
on the terms of the armistice. Th
people have begun again to sing thcl.
Marseillaise, which is, of course, for
bidden in German occupied France
Marshal Petain, holding the Tricolor
to his breast, !las become for thos.
who cheer him the symbol of event
tial liberation and recovery.
What is happening in Paris? We
hear that the University has been
closed following some student .demon-
strations when over 120 young people
were arrested. That does not sound
Iike co-operation between the youth
of France and the Nazis. At night
the workers in the industrial suburbs
tear down the German posters from
the walls and chalk up ribald come
ment in the Parisian manner, Thdt
doesn't sound like co-operation be-
tween the workers and the Nazis.
Those who used to think . that we
could not win the war, and built the
Vichy Government on, that false sup-
position, are now in the minority:
Sonte of them are seeking vainly to
justify themselves, trying to get
some concession out of the Nazis
which will restore their fading pop.
trinity with their own people, But
they have got nothing. Hitler and his
friends do not give. They only take,
Mussolini is discovering that. Laval
may do so in time. It has always
been the Fuhrer's boast that he did
not admit co-operation. He detnancis
submission.
That, I am sure, he will never get
from the French people. The last
nan that I saw he France, when I
left that country in September, was
from Alsace. He had not had any
news of his wife and children for.
five months he told me, as' they were
in Alsace when tate Britzkreig began,
and he was with the army. After
the armistice be had been sent as a
guard on the Spanish frontier at a
little place in the middle of the;
Pyrenees, It was a lovely place, high
in the mountains, but my wife and
were feeling pretty sick at heart, for
we were leaving France after twenty
four happy years, leaving all -w
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