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S one of the fow French Socialista who 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,

You seemed to understand spon- taneously that the French people do not bear the responsibility for treachery that their Government betrayed them as well as you,

We are glad to see the British so balanced, retaining oven at the pro- sent crucial time their sense of justice.

And I assure you that you aJO right not to lose confidence in the French people--for 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

war

For eight months I have been, not

diplomatic but

corre- spondent. Hiring alde by side willi our officers and men la the outposts, Thetr resolution was firm. They meant to defend at any cost their country and their freedom. They. Loo, were betrayed by men at the top.

You can be sure that the Popular Front

and the Socialista were not responsible for the French short- cominga.

It was the Bluen Government which demanded and, in fact, ob- tained from Parliament, massive credits for national defence purposes.

If, when those credits were shared out among the Services, the part allotted to the air arm was too small. the responsibility falls upon the General Staff.

Actually, our greal "strategista " regarded the air arm as nothing more than an auxillary weaponi

Just as they failed to understand the role of armoured and mechan- 13ed divisions in modern warfare, so they persisted in this mortal error.

The Maginot Line superstition also did us great harm. It was in vala that, in January last, General de Gaulle tried once again to con- vince the chiefs of the General Staff that the German armoured divisions held redoubtabla surprises in store for us.

FUNNY SIDE UP

TOASTERS

ALL KINDS

by LOUIS LEVY

member of the a leading French Socialist Party and Diplomatie Correspondent of the Socialist newspaper, "Le

Populatro."

Nothing seemed to impress them. Thano gentlemen kad 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 baste of the war of 1914-1918.

But there is no need to go back no fat. 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 crecled in front of the Spine and the Loire?

Why was the Maginot Line not cracuated and its defending forces the withdrawn

towards Intact south-west?

In stori, did General Weygand really want to rixlat those last few weeks?

After the Somme reverse, did he not capitulate in his own mind, and think thereafter only of defeat?

Resistance was in fact, still possible. That was the view held by General de Daulle, and by a strong minority among the Dotmell of Ministers in Bordeaux,

But it would have boen necessary to galvanike tie country, to have appealed for complete co-operation.

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Leaders Scared

There was no need for the population to rush towards the frontier with rifles. Nevertheless an appeal could have been made to the muss of the population to put anti-tank obstacles in the streete and to mino the roads.

A bugle call was needed to stir the spirit of a great people which did not

want to dio.

You, in this country, where all classć, of society are united against the Naza agressor, cannot understand how far the Fit Column hnd pencirated into the French

propn bourgeolie. Fascist ganda

undermined everything.

Remember Pebruary 8, 1934--the day on which tho Prench Fasciste in the paz of rich ronetionaries tried to overthrow the Republic?

had completely

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One may safely

ASSUTTO

thni these French Fascists were not without contact with their counterparts abroad Behind the Hooded Men" plot a few months later, there loomed the shadowi

of Mussolini and Hitler.

But the Fascista did not surered on February 6. The Democratic tradition was too strong in France.

The Popular Front won the day the great distress of the reactionaries However, this right was only momen tary and the opponents of democracj did not abandon the fight

They did everything to overthrow the Government chosen by the people When their first attacks failed thes ried by every possible means to auzolane public opinion against any attempi bi the Left governments to put into prac don an anti-Fascist policy in the Inter- national Deld.

Hitler Excused

You have not forgotten the Spanists affair and the pitiable story of non- intervention.

Nor have you forgotten the angular campaign

Czecho-Elnvaktla against

from which emerged the Munich Agrce- ment

The infamous rôle played by a large section of the Press before and after cannot be sufficiently CO1- Munich demned.

Up to the very eve of war, seme papers especially important weeklies with large circulation-cynically reproduced German propaganda niognize

All the attacks were reserved for Russin and Communism, all the excusci for Hitler

Little by little, some honest but i

members of the middle-class norant allowed themselves to be persunded by the perfidious campaign.

And German and Italian Fascism di not flourish only in the Press. It was active in Parliament and in the Gov. Everywhere And $tx

But this General Staff which did not wish to defend Paris, the great city of craments revolutions, was no doubt frightened of conscious or unconscious accomplices.

"people's

distinguish arrything that looked like

Of course, it is difficult between the real traitors and the ilupes. 4 that good What is unbelievable Frenchmen, good Democrats, did not

war,"

A call on the revolutionary spirit could not be expected to appeal to Gen. erai Weygand, a Fascist of foreign origin.

understand their danger. The truth which our English comrades I have no wish to reproach friends should know is that there were many for the past. But one may well ask Prench capitalista who preferred Hatter why it was thought necessary, to intX\CM to that which they call Communism but duce into the Reynaud Cabinet men which is in fact nothing more than who were bound to show their hands Democracy.

at the very moment when defeat began to assuron catastrophie proportions.

What faith could anyone have m

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Angry Workers

The workers of France, you can be kure tearned with shame and pain of the armistice conditions. whichi, uradil the last minute, were hidden from them. Their anger is now great.

But you will understand that any revolt will be suppressed by Hitler's forces-until Hitler's forces are them- scives at breaking point.

'As for us refugees, your, guests, we also are in confusion. :

We cannot admit that a Government which has betrayed its obligations to- wards you is the real government of France

We will fight with you in the common GaL150.

We shall struggle by all the means in our power to dispel the lies which the Hitlerites and their accomplices will certainly spread in order to decalve the French.

Every day, we will try to make knowi the truth to our unhappy compatriota. The people of France handed over by dia leadera toʻ Nazi Germany "must" be copt'aware of the fact that democratio Britain is fighting for all democracles, that, a victory by Britain and her Dominions over. Fascism will rebuild a STAKA AMA, HADpy France.

EMPIRE CONFERENCE:" Mr. D. J. Bloss, Vice-Chancellor, of Hongkong University, has been, ap-- pointed Hongkong's delegate to the Empire Defence Conference in India vico the Hon. Mr. H. R. Butters, who has resumed duty as Financial Secre

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"After What I've Seen, I Say,

They Can't Scare You....

by F. G H SALUSBURY

War Correspondent

E are in for a pretty

Wad time in this country,

and everything which we hold dear, everything for which we 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 doubt cast on the morale of the British people

The doubters were, superficially, well Intentioned. They acemed sure of themselves, doubtful only of some of their fellow citizens.

Perhaps they felt little braver Per- In their doubling of others. hops--for nothing is impossible in a world which suffers Dr. Goeb bels-they were doing a little quiel work un behalf of the Fifth Columin.

The fact remains, to my mind, that they were damnably in error, whatever their intentions.

What To Expect Now, what I have seen of the morale of the British people in the

constitutes # Army

magnificent tribute to human qualities in the face of appalling, Inhuman danger.

I remember particularly a VIRIL I paid to Louvain when it was still held by us.

Much of the city had been laid waste. The body of a ten-year-old girl was still tropped In the debris of what, a few days before, had been ከዛ ordinery, happy home.

Cows, unmilked, hos strayed into the streets, and were lowing for someone to relieve them of their loed.

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Calm & Cheerful A few civilians remained. They were not frightened. They showed signa of panic. "And what should I do now, monsieur?" an old man asked me, showing his papers. "Are there any arrange- ments, do you know?“

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 signs in him of Leopold's collapse,

I found battallun headquarters of the Royal Ulster Rifles, who were holding that part of the line. The men were cut and cheerful.

sold one in a

"So you write for the papers?" rich, heurtening accent. "Tell me, now, will you put us in, and will they read about us in Ireland?"

I see what I have just written "The men were calm and cheer- ful." It is bald and ineffective. Il sounds like the worst political cliche.

But it is true. And I will con- fess to you, without, I hope, seem-

for Ing too sentimental

my job, that there were tears pricking at the back of my eyes as I turned to leave those rigemen.

Tears of pride? Teurs of re- collections of other youngsters who had been by my side in the Inst war? Well, anyhow

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But there was nowhere any fear. Not among the people, not among the soldiers of the BE.F., not among the "You's" who may foon suffer all the horrors of bombard- ment from the air.

It is frightening to our animal instincts, but it cannot break our hearts.

It may kill people, but it cannot kill their spirit.

Farmer's Anger

On the roadside near Alost I ran into a bombing by a dozen German planes. The car stopped and we took shelter.

Out into the road ran a Belgian farmer, careless of death. He was passionately angry. lie shook his st at the monsters which droned above. "Ah!" he cried, "Ah! Les Salpud! Les sales Boches!"'—Ah The swinel The dirty Boches!

It's Poison

Do not listen to anyone who hints that the Germana may be able to destroy the morale of our people. Or, rather, listen to him, and then either hit him necurately on the Jaw or since we are a law- abiding race hand him over to a policeman.

Belleve ine, that sort of poison Is 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, I rot to like them less and less. And, curiously enough, the snimal part of me was less frightened by shell-fire in the last war than by Hitler's bomba in this one.

You will probably see horrible sights, horrible results. But no- thing of that sort will affect your determination to win this war, nothing which the German bom- bera can do will break you.

There may be a longer time of wolting than we expect. Do not worry. That is part of Hitler's technique.

Leaders At Fault

The rot in Belglum and France set ini, from the top: The people, as I have already said, were be trayed by their leaders.

They had nothing to set against the infltration of the Fifth Column and the rain of bombs but their 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 the censor will not let me de- scribe them accurately--who sang "Roll Out the Barrel" when faced by certain death. Yes, they all dieel singing.

That is the stuff which forms the morrow 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.g Allowance being made for this distinction, it still la 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.

Conceiving his settlement to be the place in America where Christianity was first introduced (he conveniently overlooked, among others, the Pilgrims) Sir George namedy the place "Avalon," after the spot in England where the Christian doc trine, according to tradition, was originally preached.

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