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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

TWO BRIEF YEARS

It is a fantastic experi- ence to look back across two brief. years to July 14, 1939, the 150th anniver- sary of the fall of the Bastille. Europe was offi- cially at peace then; the outlines of the Continent} had suffered little appar- ent change since Ver- sailles, although Austria was gone, and Albania, and Czecho - Slovakia. Down the Champs-Elysees paraded the principal supporters of the Euro- pean order, the French Army, unmatched in pre- stige in the world.

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position of honour in that traditional display were British guardsmen in red coats and bearskin, Bri- tish sailors and marines!

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and the close-packed | Parisian crowds shouted "Vive l'Angleterre!" Pre- sident Lebrun, speaking at а demonstration of French unity, flung the challenge of the demo- cratic way into the teeth of that black cloud of reaction mounting east of Rhine; "Immutably at- tached to these principles of 1789, France recognises

for all

men, without Joseph. distinction of birth, colour or religion, the right of access to liberty and equality."

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