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After What I've Seen. I Say......
I speak for the They Can't
French people
A
B one of the few French
Socialists
wbo have
managed to reach London since the capitulation, I should like to send a message to the workers of Great Britain.
First of all. I should like to say how much the French refugees here appreciate the welcome given to them by their British friends.
for
You seemed to understand spon- taneously that he French people do bear the responsibility treachery--that their Government betrayed them as well as you.
We are glad to see the British so balanced, retaining even at the pre- sent crucial time their sense Justice.
of
And I assure you that you are right not to lose confidence in the French people-tor the French people are sound, perfectly sound.
In the same way, you are right not to lose faith in the French Army as a whole.
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Men Betrayed
For eight months I have been, not
diplomatic but
COFFC-
A war
spondent, living side by side with our officers and men in the outposta, Their resolution was firm. They meant to defend at any cost their country and their freedom. They, too, were betrayed by men at the top.
You can be sure that the Popular Front and the Bocialists were not responsible for the French short- comings.
It was the Blum Government which demanded and, in fact, ob. tained from Parliament, massive credits for national defence purposes.
It, when those credits were shared out among the Bervices, the part allotted to the air arm was too small. the responsibility falls upon the General Staff.
Actually, our great "strategists " regarded the air arm as nothing more than an zweiliary weapon!
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by LOUIS LEVY
teading member of the French Socialist Party and Diplomatie Correspondent of the Soctalist newspaper, “ Le
Populatro."
Nothing seemed to impress them. Thesa gentlemen had learnt nothing, either from the lesson of Spain or the lesson of Poland.
Hidebound by routine, deprived of any form of imagination, they assessed the war of 1940 on the basla of the war of 1014-1018,
But there is no need to go back no far. In May, it was clear that im- portant tactical mistakes had been committed Why, then, between May 10 and the month of June, were concrete works not erected in front of the Beine and the Lotre?
Why was the Maginot Line not ovacuated and its defending forces withdrawn Intact towards south-west?
the
In short, did General Weygand really want to resist those inst few weeks?
After the Bomme reverse, did he not capitulate in his own mind, and think thereafter only of defeat?
Resistance was, in fact, if possible That was the view held by General de Gaulle, and by a strong minority among the Council of Ministers in Berdeaux.
But it would have been necessary to galvanise the country, to have appealed for complete co-operation,
Leaders Scarod
There was to need for the populations to rush Lowards the frontier with rifles
Nevertheless an appeal could have been made to the mass of the population to put anti-tank obstacles in the streets and to mine the roadia
A bugle call was needed to stir the spirit of a great people which did not
want to ale.
But this General Slag which did not wish to defend Paris, the great city of revolutions, was no doubt feightened of anything that looked like a
people's
A call on the revolutionary spirit could not be expected to appeal to Gen. eral Weygand, a Fascist of foreign origin.
You, in this country, where all clarsı of society ate anlted agħinst the Nazi agressor, cannot understand how far the Pirth Columa had penetrated into the French bourgeoisto. Pancial pгора. gunda
completely undermaliel everything.
hnd
Remember February 0. 1834--the day on which the French Fascists in the phy of rich reactionaries tried to overthrow the Republic?
One may safely assume now that these Frich Fuscists were not without contact with their counterpacia abroad Behind the "Hooded Meti" plot a few mantha laler, there loomed the shadows of Mussolini and Hitler
But the Fracista did not succeed on February 0 The Denvertaile tract::loli was too strong in France
The Popular Front won the day "L the great distress of the teartwarzes However, this night was only momra tary at the opponents of demmeraci siid not abandon the fehl
They did everythium to uvečihŁAW The Government chosen by the people When their first attacks failed trany tried by every possible meñas la arutames public opinion against any attemp by the Left governments to pat šola prne ter an anti-Fascist policy in the inter national neid
Hitler Excused
You have not forgotten the Spani affair and the pitiable story of ou intervention
Nor have you forgotten the slugubir campaigns akaitint Czecho-Slavoklá froni which emerged the Munich Agree- ment
The infamous role played by a large meetion of the Press before and after Munich Catinol
sufficiently De
con- demned
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Scare You..
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by F. G. H SALUSBURY
War Correspondent
XE are in for a pretty bad time in this country, And everything which we hold dear, everything for which wo Are fighting, depends on our keeping our heads.
I am sure that we will,
One thing which surprised me after my return from a devastated Belgium and France was to hear dimub cast on the morale of the British people.
The doubters were, superficially. Well Intentioned. They Fermed sure of themselves, doubtful only of some of their fellow citizens.
Perhaps they felt itle braver Per- in tara doubting of others hnja for nothing is impossible
World which suffers D: Goeb- be they were duing a little quiet. work
behalf of the Fifth Column
The feel remains, to my mind, that they were damuably la error, whatever their Intentions,
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What To Expect Now, what I have seen of the morale of the British people in the
constitutes Army
magnificent tribute to humor qualities in the lace of appalling, Indianan danger.
I remember particularly a visit paid to Louvain when it was still held by un Much of the city had been laid waste. The body of a ten-year-old girl was still trapped in the debris of what, a few days before, had been ກ ordinary, happy home.
Cows, unmilked, bus strayed into the streets, and were lowing tor someone to relieve them of their
Up to the very eve of war. Luine Ipers espectaЛy important weckiles with
large
load, circulation cynically reproduced German propaganda sloganı
All the attacks were reserved fot Russia and Qmmunism, all the excuses
for ter
Litle by little, some honest bul i3- norant members of the middle-class allowed themselves to be persuaded by the perfidious campaign
it
And Oermian and Italian Fascism did not Nourish only in the Press. It was active in Parliament and in the Gov. Everywhere hnd is crnments. copselcus or unconscious accomplices,
Of course, it is dimcult to distinguish between the real traitors and the dupes. What is unbelievable is that good Frenchmen, good Democrats did not understand their danger
Just as they failed to understand the role of armoured and mechan- ised divisions in modern warfare, so they persisted in this mortal erroc.
The Maginot Line superstition also did us great harm. It was in vain that, in January last, General
I have no wish to reproach friends The truth which our English comrades de Gaulle tried once again to con-
should know is that there were many for the past. But one may well ask vince the chiefs of the General Stan French capitalists who preferred Hitler why it was thought necessary to intro that the German armoured divisions to that which they call Communism but duce into the Reynaud Cabinei men held redoubtable surprises in store which is in fact nothing more
for us.
FUNNY SIDE UP
TOASTERS ALL KINDS
SALE
Democracy,
Han
who were bound to show their haukin at the very moment when defeat began to nasume catastrophic proportionia.
wht Inith could anyone bave in Jest Ybarnegaray, one of the leaders
By Abner Dean of the Croix de Peu and an intimate
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
Sale
ned, this loud speaker bawls out
friend of Fascism? In Paul Baudouiņ. representative of the hanks who never hid a hatred for Democracy, his sym- pathira for Fascism, and who only last year was employed as an emissary to the Duce?
Angry Workers
The workers of France. you can be Aure learned with shame and pain at the armistice conditions which, until the last minute, were hidden from them, Their anger is now great.
But you will understand that any revolt will be suppresset by Hitler's forces until Hitler's forces are them- selves at breaking point.
As for us refugees, your guests,, wo also are in confusion.
We cannot admit that a Government which has betrayed ita obligations to- wards you is the real government of Franco.
*We will fight with you in the common Carise.
Wo shall struggle by all the means in our power to dispel the lles which the Hitlerites arid, their accomplices' will certainly spread in order to deceive the Frerich..
Every day, wo will try to make known the truth to our unhappy compatriota
The people of France handed over by. Its leaders to Nazi Germany must be rept aware of the fact that democratic Britain is fighting for all democracies, that a victory by Britain and her Dominions over Fascism will rebuild a Happy Franco, &
EMPIRE CONFERENCE Mr. D. J. Bloss, Vice-Chancellor of Hongkong: University, has been up- pointed Hongkong's delegate to the Empire Defence Conference la India, vice the Hon. Mr. H. R. Butters, who has resumed duty as Financial Secre tary
Calm & Cheerful
A few civilians remained. They were not frightened, They showed
signs of panic. "And what should I do now, monsieur?" an old man naked me, showing hig papers. "Are there any arrange- ments, do you know?"
I referred him to the Town Hall. and he pottered off in the sun- light, between the ruins, pushing heaps of shattered glass aside with his stick. There were no signa in aim of Leopold's collapse.
I found battalion headquarters of the Royal Ulster Rifles, who were holding that part of the buc. The men were calm and cheerful.
"So you write for the papers?" sold one
in £1 rich, heartening Berent. "Tell me, now, will you put us, and will they read about us in Ireland?"
I see what I have just written- "The then were calm and cheer- ful." It is bald and ineffective. It sounds like the worst political ellehe.
But true. And I will con- fess to you, without, I hope, seem- ing too sentimental for my job, that there were tears pricking at the back of my eyes as I turned to leave those riflemen.
Tears of pride? Tears of re- collections of other youngsters who had been by my side in the last wart Well, anyhow.
But there was nowhère any fear. Not among the people, _not_among ibe soldiers of the B.E.F.. not among the "You's" who may soon suffer all the berrors of bombard- ment from the air.
It is frightening to our onlinal instincts, but it cannot break our hearts.
It may ki people, but it cannot kill their spirit.
Farmer's Anger
On the roadside near Alost 1 Into a bombing by a dozen German planes. The car stopped and we look shelter.
Out into the road ran a Belgian farmer, careless of dunth. ile was passionately angry. He shook his 1st at the monsters which droned above. "Ah!" be cried, "Ah! Les Salnuts! Les soles Boches!"-Ali The swine! The dirty, Boches!
It's Poison
Do not listen to anyone who hints that the Germans may be able to destroy the morale of our people. Or, rather, listen to him, and then either hit him accurately on the jaw or-since we are a law- abiding race-hand him over to a policeman.
Believe ine, that
aurt
1
ot patson In inspired by something unclean and untrue. It drips from the place where the bombs come from. You will not feel comfortable during an air-raid. Personally, got to like them less and less. And, curiously enough, the animal part of me was icas frightened by shell-fire in the
War
than by Hitler's bombs in this one,
You will probably see horrible ghis, horrible results. But no thing of that sort will affect your this war, determination to win nothing which the German bom- bers can do will break you.
Jast
There may be a longer time of Do not waiting than we expect. worry. That is part of Hitler's technique.
Leaders At Fault
The rot in Belgium and France set in from the top. The people, ns I have already sald, were bo truyed by their lenders.
They had nothing to set against the Infiltration of the Fifth Column bombs but their and the roin of
own anger and bewilderment.
And, if ever you feel a twinge of discomfort, think of the men of. the B.E.F., particularly of those not let me de- the censor will scribe them accurately who sang "Roll Out the Barrel" when faced by certain death. Yes, they all died singing.
That is the stuft which forms the marrow of our backbones. And we shall never bow to mere, unreasoning panic.
Footnotes to History
First Puritans Did Not Come to Boston Strictly speaking, the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth in 1620 were not Puritans. The democratic Pilgrim Fathers be- lieved in complete separation from the Church of England, while the true Puritans, aristocrats and men of wealth, merely wanted to purge the Anglican Church of its alleged evils.
Allowance being made for this distinction, it still is not true that Puritans first came to the New World in the Great Migration of 1630-40, which had Boston as its focus. For as early as 1621, Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore), who three) years later became a Roman Catholic, had established a small colony for religious refugees in southern Newfoundland. The founder, not yet an avowed Catholic, welcomed the harassed Puritans to the new colony gang on pine w
Conceiving his settlement to be the place in America where Christianity was first introduced (he conveniently overlooked, among others, the Pilgrims) Sir George named the place "Avalon," after the spot. in England where the Christian doc-
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