THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 20, 1940
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE
BRITAIN'S INCREASING SUPPORT
Some of the staunchest supporters of the aid-to- Britain movement in the United States are persons who formerly were either lukewarm or quite impar- tial in their attitude to ward the war. This alter-
Journey Across Europe
No one will be better pleased than the German soldiers if Hit- ler's plan for invading Britain is postponed indefnitely. Not from any love of Britain, but just be- cause they would like to stay alive.
among them in occupied Brittany 1 know, because I spent 19 days and in occupied Touraine.
I did not seek out the company of the Germans. That would not tenant in the Polish army, and have been healthy. I am a licu- with other Polish officers and men who had been with the French i
was trying to escape from Ger- man-occupied France to Britain in order to carry on our fight, I had to avoid the Germans.
But I saw and
I heard them,
ation in sentiment has been due to recognition of America's position in the world conflict. Recent re-and the peasants and the people 'cruits to the anti-Nazi in the chateau who hid us, who cause base their new posi-ve us food and helped us on our way, they all had tales to tell us tion on moral as well as of the German soldiers in their
villages. political grounds.