I
Saturday,
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just
I have ten days in
WENT to France at the
special invitation of the and French Government, visited not only Vichy, the seat of government, but. any part of non-occupied France that I cared to see.
I am writing this despatch in Spain, which means that it is subject to no censorship on the part of the French Government.
First of all, 1 want to state that despite the most persistent efforts of German propaganda agenta, the French nation remains anti-German and pro-British.
Franco has had to bow down be- fore the weight of arms of her con querors, und many of her sons now regret the mistakes which were made in those fevered days in June,
would care to do so.
by
November 2, 1940.
Boy Says He
spent was Gagged It takes France
HAROLD CARDOZO
THE ONLY BRITISH JOURNALIST ALLOWED INTO FRANCE SINCE HER CAPITULATION.
reforms instituted by Petain will remain. Everywhere I have four that the consensus of opinion whe that such reforms had long been necessary and had to be carried out: but even defeat and an authoritarian regime cannot stamp out the French Independence of thought and the right to criticise.
still dazed and uncertain as to what away to England, as many of our criticising, but I don't understand.
actually happening around them.
They Hear B.B.C.
comrades dk."
Then Caned
AS Mrs. Julle Hull loft court at Brighton, after hearing one of her six adopted children allege that she gagged and thrashed hlm, several children greeted
her.
The boy, eleven-year-old Peter Wright, went off in the charge of an offelal of the N.S.P.C.C.
Mrs. Hull was accused of cruelty and the magistrates were told that had ordered another boy to give Peter Afty strokes with a cane. Not satisfied that the punishment was
che severe enough, it was said,
ron thrashed him herself. Peter away the next day and found a policeman.
Lor occasional
"I have nothing, of course, to say ngainst the present Government," a
Speaking with a strong French Nimes hairdresser told me, "but the fira! thing they did was to suppress accent, Mrs. Hull pleaded not guilty. She heard Mr. J. Itaymond Barry, professional football, which we love."
for thu N.S.P.C.C., They said it was necessary to save prosecuting France. Oh, mark you, I am not describe her as a woman of substan
tial position, in receipt of an Income "Now They have suppressed from property. She pald £2,000, he sald, for, her house in Preston-roud, found this man and all his com- "peritifs, which we all like. But they have not lost their hatred
There is much bitterness every-Brighton,
Bread And Water of Germany, and they are filled with rates equally enthusiastic about the where against those men who are admiration for the way in which feats of the RA.F., and equally con- believed to have betrayed France in Great Britain has taken on the fight vinced that final victory lay with the days of the war and those pre-
Peter
was the lust of the IX single-handed,
Great Britain.
ceding it.
children she had adopted. There were Gamelin, Daladier, and Mandel
no complaints until a few weeks ago, Vichy in bright with sunshine and holds more pretty young women are the names most hated, together, when, after Peter had torn a sheet, but only a mere handful of them "PARIS is marvellous, though too than I have seen in one spot for a perhaps, with Pierre Col, who is now she kept him on bread and water for
a month, except believe that they can get better sul for me to stay there," a well- long time. But it is too small for safe in America.
Albert, Minister of Justice, says potatoes. terns by truckling to the invader, or known American correspondent told the seat of government, and there is
much overcrowding he is determined to hasten the pro- On July 13, afraid of being punish- me. "See the way Parisians are consequently
Cat Riom, which I visited | ed when he found a hole in his trou-
my stay and where I found In fact, there is really only one standing up to the Invader with and much confusion.
Mrs. Hull took him to a room used man in France of any notoriety who calm; quiet dignity. Every night
The question which everybody asks the "Palais de Justice" to be magni-ers, he tried to mend them himself. they gather in each other's houses, advocates such EL Courne. He
with doors and windows closed, and is: "Will the Petain Administration deent buildings, but very sleepy, as an air-raid shelter. She placed with few traces of that active search him on a couch, forced a handker- Deat, whose Morecl
pro-GermaN
in posi Jlsten
the B.B.C. Their
anly Inst7"
Inain accused chief into his mouth, kept My writing in L'Oeuvre have been too
answer, after very careful for the guilt of the much even for the present Govern- pleasure is when they hear of the
case.
round his head, and sent another ment, which have therefore frequent exploits of your wonderful Air Force, sounding, is that it will last as long which I thought would have been tion by tying another handkerchief
as the old Marshal lives-with per- the
One lawyer said to me: "Our only ly banned his articles entirely.
"Not one of them believes for a haps certain changes in personnel...
She broke of the thin end of the spoke of Marcel Deat to news single moment the figures issued by and that it will crumble as soon as chance, in the present state of the boy named George for a cane.
the Marshal disappears from the public temper, is to drag things out, cane, ordered George to give Peter It is his name and hals pres- and naturally we are going to make atty stroken, and left the room. When papermen, to olleials, to soldiers, and the Germans,"
I met a young French uir ser-"svene. to "the man in the street." They all
gennt who told me he had just been tige which along are keeping it to every use of procedure for that pur- she returned she said: "You are not nose. Alibert has other ideas, how-hurting him enough. I will show you had the utmost contempt for him.
under close arrest for 24 hours for gether.
to salute German
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The most likely thing is that the ever, and wants to have a big trial how to do it." France hopes that Britain will win fuiling
After the boy escaped, sald Mr. to the Armistice Government will become even more early in December at the latest."
I learn he wants at least six death Barry, Inspector Cooke, of the NSP the war, but as yet the people are officer, attached
must Commision, who was inspecting an military and the Army take a larger confident of this. We
sentences, and what is terrible is CC, and a policeman Interviewed that probably he'll get them, though Mrs. Hull. She admitted thrashing realise that the people had a terrific nerodrome. "It was cheap," he said. share in the Administration.
the accused men are no more guilty the boy, saying that he was a llar. shock when they heard of France's "We all walk away avhen we
than scores of others, some of whom capitulation. They could not under- Germans coming. We were unlucky stand what had happened to what in not being able to get at our they regarded as their "magnificent machines when the armistice Acmy." The result is that they are signed, otherwise we would have got the majority, if not quite all, of the far from Vichy.
not
tu
Leopold is guarded in hungry Belgium
NLY one day before the
ONLY
Germans struck at Belgium M. Maurice Lambllliotte, Bēl- gium's Food Controller, told me: "Belgium has food reserves for two years."
Recently I read a letter which has come without censorship from Bel- gium, and the writer tells of the great shortage of food. So where have those enormous stocks gone?
-by- Henri Fast
air
seg
Sport and Drink
was BUT I think It can be sold that might possibly be found to-day not
Former reporter in Brussels, whe
has just reached Lisbon.
The writer wound up saying: "There is just one thing which we walt and pray for day and night for British victory,"
Chinese Believe In Numbers
And Picturesque Proverbs
Did Not Gag Him
Mrs, Hull in evidence, said the boy's conduct had not been antifactory. She added: "I never kept him on bread and water for more than a day, and I never put a gog on him as he says I did.
"When he did not cry, I thought the other boy was not doing it hard enough. I took the stick and did it myself. I did not know I had hurt him so
so much, and I am very sorry. It was the first time I had used a cane and it will be the last.
"On
the Friday before, at the pictures, I had seen a mother thrash that proverbs in usage in China are her boy because he was a cheat, and As the artist deftly adds a touch of colour to his canvas to cqual in number as in the whole of in the picture he became better for it. Europe. And all these proverbs are "When I told the children they further embellish his painting, spoken daily by both the rich and said it was quite right. They said, so does the proverb add to the poor, educated and illiterate,
There are in China inany types of It's in the Bible-Spare the rod and
spoil the child."*" picturesqueness of the Chinese
The magistrates declied to adjourn language. Indeed it has been proverbs. Some deal with the home,
women, health, wealth, business, the case and granted an application said that the ordinary Chinese education, sorrow and virtue, Of for Peter to remain in the custody of
these, some have come from such retho N.S.P.C.C. speaks largely in proverbs.
Within the range-of-the-Chinese-mote times on 1706-1122 B.C, during "Most come, language there seems to be a proverb the Shang Dynasty. to meet each and every circumstance, however,
from the great sage of
And inany a time has a timely pro- China-Confucius, the Revered Mas- Polish Pilots Shot
ter of China's milions.
Certain Chinese proverbs, too, are use among Occidentals
The
•
Fourteen Nazis
London, Sept. 11.
the woods at Surrey
verb put an end to a wordy battle.
Chinese proverbs, it is stronge to note, are found most abundantly in in current age ltural or isolated communities, who, no doubt, have no idea that they
The German Air Force again lost whc.e books and educated men are are of Chinese origin. "Strike while iron's hot," is a fairly good such cases the In
nearly a third of its raiders in a few and far removed,
example. the only
two-hour air battle over London and the village elders supply source of knowledge, storing what
South-East England on the afternoon There are niso many Chinese they in their youth were told and taught by their elders. Observations equivalents to proverbs used in the of September 11, 90 of them being
destroyed. "Done I think we can all guess....
They may be cited, about moral conduct are stored in West.
A famous Pelish squadron which the KING LEOPOLD, his children
The Rexists are not greatly in the crops, the weather, illness, and leisurely, done well" (Chinese) and
Finally they "More haste less speed" (Western) inflicted severe punishment on and Queen-Mother Elizabeth evidence, but it is a sad thing in-minds of these men,
a thousand cash." (Chinese) and a formidable attack, with another live at the Royal Palace of deed to think that the Vichy Gov- become crystallized Into precepts and "Better to take 300 than give credit German pilots last week put up such He meni, which had M. Leun De- the source from which they must for in hand is worth two in the squadron of Hurricanes; that many
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of the raiders quickly unloaded their Lacken, outside Brussels. grelle, Rexist leader, in its prisons have originally come, are forgolten.
The characteristics of a nation can bush" (Western).
Chinese people, eminently bombs over has a German guard at the gate, at Calais and Poltters after the fall but whether this is to protect of Belgium, now recognises him as easily be seen from proverbs used.
coast, How well wisdom for good or evil throughout By the time the battle was over him or to keep watch on him is head of the mission for the repatria- Confucian tenets demand filial piety practical, have been guided by folk and Sussex and then fled for the
tion of Belgian citizens to Belgium and respect for the old.
Chinese life is illustrated here! their history, Thousands of pithy not clear. I do not think there from France.
sayings have been stored up to cover the Pollah pilots had destroyed 14 of the enemy ralders-four Heinkels, is any truth in reports that he
He was released when German' The Chinese as a nation have al- every imaginable situation in human of often sets high German officers.
pressure was applied at Vichy. He ways believed in doing things in a life. It is safe to say that without three Dorniers 215, three ME's 110 In funeral and wedding proverbs China would not be China, and four ME's 100. The squadron One can dismiss, too, the stories lias power now to sweep back into big way. that he owes his pro-German ten- Belgium and possibly into concen- ceremonies, children and population, not the China of learning, culture and was led by an English night-lieuten-
with women friends. He is tration camps or to a worse fate The same love for size and number resourcefulness which has progressed ant who was slightly wounded but Chinese and blossomed these many thousands landed his Hurricane safely back at dencies to
his aerodrome. thousands of Belgians who were his have remained true
proverbs. Observers have estimated of centuries. very strong-willed,
ardent political opponents. But it is true that he is surrounded
NOBODY in yet actually in Laeken by people with pro-Ger- man views, The Queen-Mother in starving in Belgium to-day.j fluences him la tala direction, and But most are short of food ex- she is an much his adviser as any cept those who laid up stocks.
About one shilling daily ls givenj Other people he sees much of are to all needy persons, so that de Mon and Herman Teirlinck, his former tutor and former professor of every one has at least sufficient Heidelberg University. The latter is money with which to buy bread.
onc.
a violent defender of the German All gold went to Britain or the
cause,
As is now well known, King Leo-
United States.
Industry
pold tried on the eve of the surrender little Belgium.
io persuade one by one the members
of the Pierlot Government to sign a
is paralysed in once busy This all suits the German plan. decree he had prepared changing the My boller is that their economie Cabinet in order that he could make aim, if they should win, will be to M. de Man head of a new Govern- encourage Belglan agriculture and ment. They all refused.
industries. many to close down Belglum would thus provide most of
I disagree with those who say that its own food and the surplus would Belgian opinion is in a majority be go to the Reich.
hind the King, Ho has the support
of part of the Flemish people, but
This return to the Jand would
only part, and not at all of the Wal- mean a great lowering of the Bel- loans that is to say, the French glan standard of living. speakers.
tho Politically,
Germans arc I estimate the section of his sup- credited with a plan to give French- porters et well under 50 per cent, of speaking Belgium back to France in compensation for Alsace-Lorraine the total population.
and part of the Mediterranean coast between Marseilles and Italy, and BUT I would like when I also the Haute Savole. According speak of people liko this to turn to this plan, it is belleved that back just for one moment to the Flemish-speaking Belgium would be added to Holland with the possibility moving letter smuggled from of King Leopold as ruler of the
whole. Belgium,
"I can see no
ason why this war must go on
Hiller to the Randstag. July ig
The other Hurricane pilots thot down five Heinkels and probably destroyed two more. A Polish By- ing- officer is missing.
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