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But the anomaly does not end here. It requires at least one more monstrosity to com- plete it: the notion that the leading State in such a union can be an autocracy and yet net
DO WE KNOW THE FRENCH?
"0"
coume, the French are as excitable!",
How often do we hear this remark! Made, too, in tones of the greatest conviction, so that one never bother to lŋquies on what grounds the speaker bases the öbservation.
French excitability is for most of us an established fact, which we never bother to verify, and which is bolstered up by the popular stazo presentation of French people, all shrugs, testiculailons, and challer. And that presentation is as untrue as the French belief that London is eternally shrouded in for, Scotland snow-bound for six months of the year, and the British diet an unvaried cycle of bolled cabbage, roast beef, and suet pudding.
1 remember Paris when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, when the French felt they were on the brink of invasion. There was none of the shrill agitation one might have expected, only quiet groups of people in the streets, talking earnestly and two or three conversing quietly round a cafe table.
Or again, I saw Paris during the strikes in the summer of 1936. There were no chattering mobs, only good-humoured crowds gathered round the big shops watching for glimpses of strikers, much as a crowd If the roo walchen for the appearance of some rare and retiring animal. ...
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in' trus "that" when'the 'French speak they gesticulate and isik quickly, and to us it looks as if they were excited, because we usually resilculate when speaking only, if we are excited.
Bat the legend of the exaltable Frenchman will die hard, as hard as the legend of the wicked Frenchman. There is a widespread con- viction that the French aro a "naughty" race. Paris is the wicked city: But Paris is no more wicked that London, New York, or Berlin; and what "wickedness" there is, is there largely for the entertainment of the foreign visitor.
Besides, Paris is no more representative of France that London is
of Britals, and in Fontainebleau, about 40 rulles from Paris, the hotels close at 10 pan, and there is not a soul to be seen in the streets after thai hour.
But it we dispose of the legend of the excitable and wicked French- man, whose diet is popularly supposed to consist chiefly of smalls and frogs (which I never saw any French person eating during an eight montha alay in France, though I did sce mails for sale) varied by an occasional dish of horse-flesh (which is sometimes given to invalidis In France as a strengthening dict), can we put any truer picture in its place?
Well, in some respects the French and the Scols have similar chaz- acteristics. Both are a thrifty race, without being mean. All French- women love a bargain, and take pride in making every centime pull its weight. They are a hard-working mace. French people begin the day much earlier than we do (they think the British are lazy race, though those who know enough to do so would probably make a distincion in this respect between English and Scots, in favour of the former), and
Lots of people have had their incomes reduced by the war.
ERIC
MASCHWITZ
famous author of "Balalaika," found his income reduced-
From
£4 a
--and this
is how he
took it-
seven o'clock is a normal hour for breakfast. The schools begin at eight in the morning.
The French are fond of simple amusements. On Sundays they go-- In families to the parks and woods, and spend the day strolling in the sun, reading and sleeping in the shade, or paddling round the lake in #boat (all French parks have pond or lake.) 'On public holidays they may ro farther afield and spend the day fishing in some pond, or stream that is to say, papa, fishes, while mama cooks over a picnic fire... and the children tumble around
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On week-days you will find the parks full of mothers and children, the mothers knitting and sewing (never filo-handed), the children mak- ing sand-ples with the sand of the paths. Sometimes a father appears and plays with them in an unselfconscious abandon which I have yet to sce displayed by A father in our parks.
The French are above all a nation of families. In France the family tie is immensely strong. You can see this, for one thing, In their fimeral notleek. A funeral notice is not lasued merely in the name of say, the widow and the children, but also in the name of the children- in-law, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, and consume of the deceased, ail mentioned by name and with their relationship exactly specified.
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The reason why parents in France exercise
greater control' the marriages of their children is because ther regard a marriage not- simply as a union between two Individuais, but as a union of families... They are, too, a very practical, logical people. Sometimes they sacrifice comfort to practicality as in their underground railway. (the Metro) No one, they argue, would ever ride in the Metro for pleasure.... but only to go from place to place quickly. So the Metro trains are* - speedy, admirably organised, and uncomfortable.
French people like good food, smart clothes, beautiful buldings. caslly-run homes. They enjoy life. They believe in letting everyono alone to enjoy life in his new way, and they expect to be left alone themselves. That's why they do not at first make so good an impression on the stranger as other races. They, don't fiing open their doors to you till they are sure you will be congenial company; then they will treat you with infinite kindness and courtesy.
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What more can be added? I have dwelt on the more everyday- qualities of the French, but it must be remembered that they are prob.. ably the most arilutio race in Europe, and that the love and apprecia- tion of art in all its forms, but more especially of painting, is widely diffused throughout the population. On Sundays the Louvre la crowded. with family parties who are enjoying the pictures,
The French are, too, an intensely patriotic people. We in Britain. have nothing corresponding to the 14th of July, the day which come. memorates the fall of the Bastille, and which, besides being a veritable festival of patriotism. expresses the French consciousness of that tradi-- tion of liberty of speech and of life which la their greatest contribution to European culture,
£200 to week
The grund thing is like it. If
for like queueing anxiously
the bathroom at 7.30, wolfing my break- fast and galloping for the tram that ratties me along to work. It is as- tonishing to And, at thirty-eight, that you can still have the fun you had at twenty-three. I am not allowed to smoke at work. That saves me thirty cigarettes a day—or 10s. Ed. B week.
It is, oddly enough, no hardship do without a second drink at
EVENTEEN Years ago night in order to be able to save up SEVEN as protector of democracy. For I was a waiter in a for a week-end ticket to town in a
cafe in France (30s. a
fortnight's time.
FIVE HUNDRED
men are
working at the same job. ns1 am-retired colonels, baronets,
fifty of them get the same £4 a
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AGATE
JAMES picked this out
Weep no more, woful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas pour sorrow is not dead,
Sank though he be beneath the watry flour.
So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycides sunk low, but mounted high,
Through
ugh the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves,
Where other groves, and other streams along, With Nectar pure his cozy Locks he loves, And hears the uncapressive nuptiall Song,... In the blast Kihgdoms meek of joy and love, There 'entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops and sweet Societies. That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes, Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more) Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore. In thy large recompense, and shalt be good.. To all that wander in that përllous flood.
JOHN MILTON. Elegy on a friend drowned in the Irish
Channel, 1837.
Woman
Rules Stalin's Timber City
U on tin has pred a new back door on to the Atlantic.
on the roof of the world, right inside the Arctic Circle,
Britain.
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federation, as Americans, the British peoples, or the success- ful Swiss understand it. Is week), then a publisher's synonymous with democracy.
It is a back door diplomatically as well as geographically. dogsbody (£2), an actor Federation in the language of (£3), a budding novelist (£5), a Russian princes, barristers, journal Through it Stalin, while shaking hands with Hitler's trade envoya the Nazis might mean the giv- hopeless no-good (£ nil), a very ists, actors and clerks, All but about in Moscow, plans to sell timber to Britain. ing of limited rights of local junior B.B.C. official (£6- week, live in the same tram.... The two most useful ports on this work he and his men freed their Arctic Sea, ploneered by early ex- ship from the lee in June, but her self-government to communities wealth), editor of the Radio And they like it too, Three men plorers in an effort to find a North- keel was badly damaged. which did not oppose the Nazi Times (£20), variety director have cars and live at the local Grand East Passage to the Indies," were, drifting down the river they ren interpretation of Europe's needs. (35); producer of "Balalaika" Hotel. They are looked down on as appropriately enough; discovered by ashore near an Eskimo village. Un- able to refloat their battered ship,. ($75), Hollywood screen writer pariaha.
following! To realise what this interpreta of "Good-bye Mr. Chips" (£200) You see we think we are doing The landing of 150 British marines most of the crew spent the tion is, one need only consider
and to-day a minor Govern- job that matters. And wo are In April 1918 at Murmansk, in the winter in the village.
It had been named after Yegor, a Anding Hitler's "and policy" as out- [ment official (£4).
in the comradeship of the north-west corner of Russia, the first
fisherman-Yegorka. The- office, the canteen and the billets units of the force sent to draw Ger. Samozed lined in "Mein Kampf.' The Half-way between the bad actor something precious that most of us many back to the Eastern Front, drow Englishmen called 11 Igarka. cardinal rule of this policy aims and the budding novelist-about had almost lost in the world of attention to the potentialities of the. [ country's all-the-year-round ice-- at a more or less constant ratio the 1924 stage-that's where I am money, mobbery and pretence.
free port.
Fifty years later Soviet Industrial between the German population to-day. I won't pretend that its Almost all of us have tried to get and the amount of land that the only money I am ever likely to Into the Amy and been firmly but The Gulf Stream and Mr. Stalin surveyors decided the. Ang natural Germans actually occupy.
have, because I made a whole heap kindly turned down for the moment have continued in successful colle- harbour beside the village in the es- (and The implications of such a soon to it) and intend one day But this isn't such a bad substitute boration to make it one of the printuary of the Yenisel would make an
Ideal base for the timber business. to make a whole heap more.
cipal outlets for West Russia.
Built between 1920 and 1934 with rule hardly fit a' pattern of true But because it happens to be all till the time comes along.
Buit 1,500 miles further cost, in the ready cash that's coming in, federation. The Third Reichs and because I believe that this is hours, after supper or over the odd garks, the real outlet for Siberia American-frontier town and peoplod We talk a great deal out of office the mouth of the Yenisei River, lies the colour and casualness of an leaders have shown that theyume at which to work hard for beer. We don't talk about our work, Winber and the glamour city of Rus- curious mixture of sulien, exiled intend its population to increase the country and not to throw money but about the times we live in and sla's amazing development In the workers, Igarka spends its short sum
kulaks and fanatically patriotic shop steadily. This means that the around on easy living, I firmly in the times that lie ahead.
mer loading the timber freighters. amount of land that Germany tend to live-on my £4,
convoyed through the ice floes of the needs must also increase steadily
NOT one of us, I believe,
Kara Sen by Icebreakers. came here (10
thinks in his heart. 0% if Hitler's land policy is to be WHEN 1
Igarka, too, owes its origin to the In the long, dark, winter the worke diverpool) they put me hearts that however the war may go English.
of sawing and stacking logs goes on kept intact. Where, then, in billets-gave me "digs"
the old world will come back again.
Captain would States' rights fit inga
Joseph Wiggins in 1876 under arc lamps, while the tempern- in Many of us quite frankly don't want 1 am writing this to-night multi-racial federation under digs. So like the lodgings of it to. And somehow that £4 pay talked cautious London bankers into ture drops to fantastle figures which Third Reich tutelage?
touring netor days that I have to envelope on Saturdays seems to be the financing a ship to weather the Arc- look like an English, heat-wave in
reverso. think twice, to convince myself that best preparation for the new world tie and bring back a cargo of gold, rev under Nazi leadership is mean of 1924. A rickety table, our chaip, and our brothers after war..
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Obviously talk of federation am not back in the merry old days that we've got to make for ourselves furs and timber from Siberia, ther to the Western world a much darker ingless in the language of a pretty comfortable bed with sheets I should add this postscript though Livingstone.
coal fire.
place thun the Africn of Stanley and The Stalin of this timber city in-
a woman-forty-five-year-old · Vam
City
Com
peoples now enjoying federation. that feel as thin as issue paper.
that casty me four-£4 a week or no £4 a week, I get Captain Wiggins reached the Yeni- lentina Petrovna Ostro-umova, once As Thomas Mann has written co |of the Third Reich, "Force wah-pence a night, a bath that requires bacit to that little table and that sci in his ship, the Theres, as winter, secretary, to Lenin.... Her official title
the Igarka a penny in the undiscoverable alot, fourpenny fire by halfpast seven and was setting in. He left his vessel in is Secretary of in and peace without-this is an la shilling shoeshine outôt with which it until midnight home one day and, hurried back to Europe by dog she has ten-times more power than scribbling at snug tributary of the main river mitted of the Communist Party, but the new play that 1 impossible conjunction." It must to brighten my £3-a-pair shoes.
carton of will be na much fun to produce as sledge with stories of the fabulous the mayor of any Engilsh borough. also be said of federation ns dis- In the wardrobe a
wealth of Siberias Mime. Ostro-umava (she left a cussed in Berlin: Autocracy cheese, a packet of biscuits, a quare some of the others.
ter of butler provide a Government PS.: As we used to say in the last Ho repeated his great journey husband and son in: Moscow to go within and democracy without servant, with supper that's the war Dear mother, I am sending across the snow in the opposite direc 19 the Arctic) has made her mush- this is an impossible supposition, life, boys,
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