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INDEPENDENCE DAY
How
July 4, 1941.
HARD NUTS TO CRACK
"Wait a minute, Mum, while I stich the old flag in" -
Kirby Muxloe,
from the "Dalty Express" Lundon
Most Bomb-Battered
Village
In Britain
stood up to the Blitz
Leaders of the Free French
of
Until the spring of 1940 Charles de Gaulle was only ja Colonel in the French Army. Reynaud, then Pre- mier, impressed by his ideas mechanised warfare which the French General Staff scorned until too late, made him a Brigadier Gen- eral. Although de Gaulle has continued to be the out- standing personality in the Free. French movement, four other men have also risen to leadership.
GEN. GEORGES CATROUX: Besides de Gaulle, Catroux is the most influential of the Free French lenders. As a five-star general he far outranked de Gaulle, and was Governor Gen- eral of Indo-China at the time of the French collapse. Refusing to obey Vichy's orders, he left for London and joined the Free French, and is its foremost re- cruit.
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Like many others of the Free French. Catroux has been colonial administrator and sol- dier all his life. In the World War he headed the French mis- sion in Arabia, helped Marshal Lyautey suppress the Riff re- bellion in Morocco in 1926, and then fought against the Druse tribesmen in Syria. Catroux is now in command of the Free French forces in the Middle Enst and apparently has his
in headquarters
Palestine, whence he has been directing the propaganda drive in Syria for the Free French.
ADMIRAL EMILE MUSE- LIER: The Admiral is the only French sailor of note to go over to the Free French. When the collapse came, he left his job as head of armament factories in Bordeaux, rushed to Paris, de-
Admiralty Office, and escaped to Britain. This episode was in line with his World War record, when he designed and command-
and took part in the French in-
Most astounding feature village was being made for happened there. Some eggs in of surface a dish in the pantry remained erection of this village blitz. Seven the houses as well as the Free brick shelters: none had as unbroken.
How to explain the villagers' Church were demolished. yet been built.
escape? Mr F. W. James, the A further 80 houses were
At 8.20 p.m. the blow fell. District Council's engineer and made uninhabitable and
There were explosions "like surveyor, puts it down to the others were less seriously the crack of doom" that lucky chance that the bombs fell damaged.
shook the village to its early in the evening when But not a single life was foundations, followed by a everyone was still downstairs.
"If it had happened when the up arms against the most powerful lost that night in Kirby long rumbling roll of thun-
over der, as one house after an- people were in bed," said Mrstroyed valuable papers in the nation in the world to back their Muxloe-one woman
James, "there would have been right to govern themselves in free-80 has since died from other was laid in ruins.
a different story to tell,"
TO-DAY American Indepen- dence Day. On July 4. 1776, the American people declared their srcession from British rule and took
dom and tolerance.
lives for themselves out of an anta- gonistie, rich and unknown, wilder
ness. They threw off the silks of
civilisation as it was then known, to
shock-and no one was even Monster bombs had fallen At the entrance to Kirby
The hardy colonists carved new seriously injured.
right in the heart of the Muxloe I was greeted by a no- How is this for a blitz? village, alongside the Free tice: "Prepare to Meet Thyed "Q" ships against submarines The villagers, I fancy, tervention in the Russian re- In the Leicestershire village Church, and in a garden God!" of Kirby Maybe there were about a hundred yards need no Scriptural admonitions
From his headquarters in In addition eight to remind them of the instabi-volution of 1917.
lity of life.
London he commands all the. 650 dwelling-houses, old away. and new, as well as the smaller bombs had dropped
The first living creature I met French naval units that joined ruins of a fifteenth-century in a field on the outskirts
was a bulldog. That was better.the British or were seized in castle. At one stroke the of the village.
Surely symbolical of the spirit in British ports after the battle of which this village met and sur- Oran. These include two battle- Luftwaffe destroyed or
mounted its disaster.
ships, the 22,189-ton Paris and damaged-well, I don't
Courbet, finely-designed ships but old and with a speed of only 16 knots. He also commands the 1,000 Free French pilots now flying with the R.A.F. against Germany.
sweat and toll In a country which promised them reward for their labour. The tremendous fight against Britain welded them into a nation; they attracted immigrants with their new ideas and wealth from all parts of the earth. They went through the want to disclose just how fres of the Civil War and emerged many houses, but I do say -stronger-because-their-weaknesses-that-no-other-community in.
had been largely burnt away.
the kingdom can show such
The Government of the United a high percentage of ma- States, backed by the frank pleas of ❘terial destruction. Great Britain, is seeking to convince Be 130 million people of this rich territory that their own private Magna Carta ія now
directly threatened by the world war which the Nazis are prosecuting. Great Britain desperately wants America to take up arms and come into the battle before the enemy has reduced
By WILLIAM
FORREST
In a little office near the village contre two young surve- yors told me how well the res- toration work was going
0X-
Army. But he held an tremely important post: chlof of staff in General Weygand's Army of the Levant. Last
accommodation East. De Gaulle made him a
On the night of raid the village W.V.S. had 400 homeless GEN. EDOUARD DE LAR- Kirby Muxloe has its own people to provide for. TheyMINAT: De Larminat was Yet, although it happened A.F.S., rescue squads, war- housed them and fed them in the only a colonel in the French some months ago, Kirby dens and all the rest, de- local golf club. 、
on the central Next morning, by the light of Muxloe has found no pendent chronicler to pen its story A. R. P. control of Blaby day more than half of the 400 found that their homes, though for posterity, as the big Rural District Council. damaged, were still habitable, summer he left Syria and joined blitzed cities have done. Down in the underground and back home they went. The the Free French in the Middle
Let me try to repair the headquarters of this control others found
mander in French Equatorial omission. It can be done they knew that something with friends in the neighbour-general and appointed him com- quite briefly, for Kirby had happened over at Kirby
Africa. Ho comes from an old. Muxloe's blitz produced nei- Muxloe. But what? When
military family from Lorraine. ther firework nor heroics, they tried to get through That some morning Engineer The Free French emblem is the
Heroes there were in
on the phone the line was James and his assistants opened Cross of Lorraine, the insignia States to this conviction so fervently plenty "Everyone behaved dead. It had been broken. their little office in the village, of Joan of Arc.
surveyed the damage and mo- GEN. PAUL LE GENTIL- They did, however, held by President Roosevelt and his magnificently," I was told
HOMME: get bilised the necessary help.
The career of Gen- Cabinet. But it is slow work and by one of the district A.R.P.
through to Glenfields, a village One hundred and twenty men, eral Le Gentilhomme has been meanwhile the bulwarks of freedom chiefs-but village Hamp- two miles from Kirby Muxloc. builders, plumbers and the like centred in the French colonics, was in this war from the moment dens remain, traditionally Glenfields sent out a patrol to were brought in from neigh-In 1909 he fought the last pirate
unsung.
all other apposition and can turn her full forces against the western
hemisphere.
Much has been done-most of
it by the Nazis themselves-to wean the citizens of the United
are threatened in Europe. America
that France fell and the designs of the Nazis to conquer the world be- came stamped as indelibly on the mind of the man in the street as it
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if they manage to delay Uncle Sun'A ly passing back and forth.
hood.
ald to the point where it will be use- But this time there was a cue squads and wardens, with ly restored. Only in the centre over Somaliland.
less, Britons everywhere need fear no rebuttal on the grounds of self seeking when they invite Americans everywhere to urge their countrymen to hasten the day of
in Indo-China, In investigate and report, and bouring villages. Within four chieftain thereafter throughout the night, days all the emergency repairs, 1932, in the same colony," he Communist up- messengera on motor-cycles such as felting roofs and board-suppressed a On the night of the raid kept the control informed of de- ing windows, had been com- rising without bloodshed. At pleted. Then starting from the the time of the French armis- tice. Le Gentilhomme WRS was already stamped on the minds the villagers heard aircraft velopments.
outskirts, where the damage was of knowledgeable people who had overhead. There was no- But Kirby Muxloe's own less serious, and working in to Governor of French Somaliland, followed the news.
Senator Wheeler, Mr Lindbergh thing unusual in that. The A.R.P. services were equal to wards the ruined centre, the and he immediately resigned to (formerly Colonel) and others of Midlands were "going the occasion. They needed no squads got down the job of res join the Free French. At the their Ik will have achieved a tre- through it" at that time. outside help. There was only toring the damaged houses to end of April he was with the de Even the Gaullo forces in Italion East Africa and last month frighten- mendous victory for the quislings of Coventry had been blitzed one fire at a gas main near the their pre-blitz state.
wrecked Free Church-for the glass went back. America as well as for Adolf Hitler and raiders were constant- A.FS. to deal with. And in ʼn More than two-thirds of the cd Vichy into declaring that the aurprisingly short time the res- houses have now been complete-Free French were about to take different sound in the air. many willing helpers, had ex- of the village do you still see the The drone of the planes, triented everyone from the de- boarded windows and the green the one and only ruin in the
bria of the ruined houses.
village. felt sagging on the roofs.
But the church? Not even William Lord Hastings, who instead of dying away, per-
The Free Church minister,
The bullt the castle, had his head Mr J. A. Caldwell, was in his the shell of that remaina. a period of living under high-pres- "I don't like the sound of manse opposite the church. The porch still stands, and in front chopped off by Richard the these fellows," said Mr manse, like the church, was of it a notice-board with a well- chosen Thought for the Week: Armson, local builder (and wrecked, but Mr Caldwell came "Good humour is a fine defence It may be that Americans have one of my informants), to out with only cuts and bruises, against hard knocks," allowed their thoughts to be diverted his wife. And the same and he is now conducting ser-
The church, too will be rea- tored. Another notice, inviting sense of foreboding must vices in the village school. have been felt by everyone One of the big bombs ex- contributions to the restoration in the village.
ploded in a cottage garden. In fund, says: "We ask your res- But what could they do the cottage were Mr and Mrs pect for this ground of hallowed Stafford with their two daugh- memories. We look towards except remain where they ters, Mr Stafford's spectacles the future.”
Kirby Muxloo is determined were in their rooms down- were broken and one of his eyes stairs? A survey of the was injured. That was all that that the old castle shall remain
battle.
fellow
The fight is universal; if it sisted. is lost for Democracy, Amerien faces,
sure terror until her day of reckon-
ing comes: which she must then face alone.
may
or
overmuch into the Pacific groove. It be that Japan will stay her hand through Impotence, Indecision decency. It is evident that she will not provoke a fight and who enn afford to seek a foe in the Pacific when the real foe lies in Europe? It is not too much to hope that July may contain arotly famous day the day of the declaration of wor against the Axis.
Third, and Shakespeare records his dying curse:
O bloody Richard! misera- ble England!
I prophesy the fearful'st time to theo.
That ever wretched age hath look'd upon..
My lord cannot have envi- saged times any moro fearful than those we live in. But "miserable England ?" Nay, wonderful England!