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A large father lately had cause to say to a small daughter, "You're not the only pebble on the beach." On the in- stant she replied, "Well, you're not the only balloon in the barrage." This is a repartee pleasing in itself and calculated to prick any bubble of portentous- ness in parents. It is also evidence that our langu- age is no dead, static thing, but is constantly being enriched by new and vivid terms of speech, derived from the events of the moment. War-time is specially prolific, and it s, as a rule, the language of the enemy which pro- vides the greater wealth. Presumably the poor for- eigner's words strike our insular minds as absurd. When Robert Louis Ste- venson went wandering with his ill-fated donkey, he spoke some words of English to the ladies of Monastier. Each one caused an explosion of laughter, but that over which they could least contain themselves was "bread." They "all got it carefully by heart," we are told, "as a standby for
Hitler has so far failed to ans- winter evenings.' Try it!
wer the message from Marshal as we will it appears to us Petain, received on Christmas a word plain and simple)
Day, in which the Marshal clearly intimated that French integrity to the point of dullness, and a soldier's honour imposed and so, for all we know, certain definite limits to collabora- does "strafe" to the Ger-line at any action calculated to
He drew tion with Germany,
man mind. Yet in the give military assistance to France's last War "strafe" was not
former chemy.
He indicated that the Armistice merely a perennial joy but terms
for hin represented
MUSSOLINI OFF TO REVIEW HIS FLEET
France Under
German Control
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By
E. B. Wareing
Marshal Pelain's intention ap- pears to be to use this body to test public opinion before introducing important departures from the present legislation.
He has consulted M. Jeanneney, President of the Senate, and M.
their to sell
Herriot, President of the Cham- products against
ber, and has appointed many worthless money. The Germans have taken a census of production members of the Council from the politicians whe and have noted every detail of ranks of former every French
are, of course, still in touch with The business. banks are completely under Ger- hem are M. Jean Fabry, Senato: their old constituencies. Among
man control, business concerns are
and ex-Minister of War, M. being bought up by the Germans, and all are linked with the Ger- Chichery, former President of the Radical-Socialist Party, M. Jear, man Ministry of Economics. Hit- ler, therefore, must feel indiffer- Mistler, former President of the ent to any suggestion for increas-Foreign Affairs Committee of the It is, however, difficult to see ed economic
Chamber, M. George Bonnet, MM. collaboration since
Jacques Doriot, Colonel de le
economic sphere.
a term of almost univer-maximum and not merely a start- ing point for fresh German de- sal application, from a
mands. full-dress battle to a re- He professed himself willing to proof by a commanding collaborate still further in the officer. To-day it is as dead as a door-nail, and how he can do this, for Germany what he needs he can, and does, Eugene Frot, Lamoureux and. "blitz" reigns in its stead. has already established complete take-whether in the occupied or Rocque (arrested recently by the
Dirk Hatteraick was Not only are booty and material.
economic domination over France. unoccupied zone.
Germans "by mistake" and re- fond of the word; it was seized in
In the political sphere the Vichy leased) and numerous others. Al- government continues to walk the together there are 27 former part of the odd, miscellan-senals, sent to Germany as part tight-rope between democracy and Senators and 44 fomer Deputies eous tongue his creater private firms are being compelled totalitarianism, but its deepest On the non-political side there are bows are reserved for the totali-over a hundred representatives of invented for him, but he]
tarian side. They have been dis-various interests 17 indus- regarded and in the semi-official trialists, 21 professional men, 16 warning just given Vichy is workmen, 7 craftsmen and various
Suhard, Archbishop of Paris,
State factories and
the Armistice conditions, but
used it merely as an ex-against the gross error of
can
This warning may mean that The appointment of a prelate on Hitler will not answer the Petain an official body 15 a letter, but after waiting a little parture. Members of the Council longer, will act.
ble for Laval's downfall, M.^ Belin, four children,
of ↑ "Liberty,
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