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INDEPENDENCE DAY

TO-DAY is American dence Day. On July

people American

declared their secession from British rule und took up arms against the most powerful nation in the world to back their

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July 4, 1941.

HARD NUTS TO CRACK

- from the "Daily Express" Landon

"Wait a minute, Mum, while I stick the old flag in"

How Kirby

Muxloe,

Most Bomb-Battered

Village In Britain

stood up to

the Blitz

Most astounding feature the erection of surface happened there. Some eggs in of this village blitz Seven brick shelters: none had as a dish in the pantry remained houses as well as the Free yet been built. Church were demolished.

unbroken.

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Leaders of the Free French

Until the spring of 1940 Charles de Gaulle was only

a Colonel in the French Army. Reynaud, then Pre- mier, impressed by his ideas lof 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.

Like many others of the Free French, Catroux has been a colonial administrator and sol- dier all his life. In the World War he hended 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 East and apparently has his headquarters in Palestine, whence he has been directing the propaganda drive in Syrin 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- stroyed valuable papers in the Admiralty Office, and escaped to Britain. This episode was in line with his World War record, when he designed and command-

How to explain the villagers' A further 80 houses were

At 8.20 p.m. the blow fell. escape? Mr F. W. James, the made uninhabitable and 4. 1776, the damaged.

others were less seriously There were explosions "like District Council's engineer and the crack of doom" that surveyor, puts it down to the lucky chance that the bombs fell shook the village to its early in the evening when But not a single life was

foundations, followed by a everyone was still downstairs. lost that night in Kirby

"If it had happened when the long rumbling roll of thun- Muxloe-one woman over

der, as one house after an- people were in bed," said Mr James, "there would have been right to govern themselves in free-80 has since died from

other was laid in ruins. shock-and no one was even

a different story to tell." Monster bombs had fallen At the entrance to Kirby The hurdy colonists carved new seriously injured.

How is this for a blitz? right in the heart of the Muxloe I was greeted by a no-

The villagers, I fancy. and took part in the French in- Honistic, rich and unknown wilder-In the Leicestershire village village, alongside the Free tice: "Prepare to Meet Thyed "Q" ships against submarines ness. They threw off the silks of of Kirby Muxloe there were Church, and in a garden need no Scriptural admonitions tervention in the Russian re- elvilisation as it was then known, to 650 dwelling-houses, old about a hundred yards to remind them of the instabi-volution of 1917.

In addition, eight lity of life. sweat and toll in a country which and new, as well as the away.

dom and tolerance.

lives for themselves out of an ante-

promised them reward for

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 fires of the Civil War and emerged stronger because their weaknesses

had been largely burnt away.

God!"

Surely symbolical of the spirit in which this village met and sur- mounted its disaster:

their ruins of a fifteenth-century smaller bombs had dropped The first living creature I met castle. At one stroke the in a field on the outskirts was a bulldog. That was better. Luftwaffe destroyed or of the village. damage'd-well, I don't want to disclose just how many houses, but I do say that no other community in the kingdom can show such a high percentage of ma- terial destruction.

The Government of the United States, backed by the trunk plens of Great Britain, is seeking to convince the 130 million people of this rich

their

is

Magra

Carta

now

territory that own private directly threatened by the world war which the Nazis are proseculing. Great Britain desperately wants America to take up arms and come into the

battle before the enemy has reduced all other opposition and can turn her full forces against the western

hemisphere.

Much has been done-most of It by the Nazis themselves—to

wean

By WILLIAM

FORREST

From his headquarters in

London he commands all the French naval units that joined the British or were seized in British ports after the battle of Oran. These include two battle- In a little office near the ships, the 22,189-ton Paris and Courbet, finely-designed ships village contre two young surve-

but old and with a speed of only yors told me how well the res-

16 knots. He also commands toration work_was_going,

On the night of raid the the 1,000-Free French-pilots village W.V.S. had 400 homeless now flying with the R.A.F.

They against Germany. people to provide for.

GEN. EDOUARD DE LAR- housed them and fed them in the

MINAT: Kirby Muxloe has its own local golf club.

De Larminat WAS Yet, although it happened some months ago, Kirby A.F.S., rescue squads, war- Next morning, by the light of only a colonel in the French Muxloe has found no dens and all the rest, de- day more than half of the 400 Army, But he held chronicler to pen its story pendent

central found that their homes, thoughtremely important post: chlof for posterity, as the big A. R. P. control of Blaby and back home they went. The Army of the Levant. Int damaged, were still habitable, of staff in General Weygand's blitzed cities have done. Rural District Council.

accommodation others found

summer he left Syria and joined thie Free French in the Middle East. De Gaulle made him a general and appointed him com- mander in French Equatorial Africa. He comes from an old military family from Lorraine. Cross of Lorraine, the insignia The Free French emblem is the

of Joan of Arc,

on

the

Let me try to repair the Down in the underground with friends in the neighbour omission. It can be done

they knew that something quite briefly, for Kirby headquarters of this control Muxloe's blitz produced nei- had happened over at Kirby

ther firework nor heroics.

Heroes there were in

hood.

bilised the necessary help.

One hundred and twenty men,

an ex-

R That same morning Engineer Muxloe. But what? When James and his assistants opened the citizens of the United plenty "Everyone behaved they tried to get through their little office in the village,

GEN. PAUL LE GENTIL. States to this conviction so fervently magnificently," I was told on the phone the line was surveyed the damage and mo held by President Roosevelt and his by one of the district A.R.P. dead. It had been broken.

They did. however, But it is slow work and chiefs--but village Hamp- through to Glenfields, a village were brought in from neigh-eral Le Gentilhomme has been get builders, plumbers and the like HOMME: The career of Gen- ore threatened in Europe. America dens remain, traditionally two miles from Kirby Muxloe. bouring villages. Within four centred in the French colonies. Glenfields sent out a patrol to days all the emergency repairs, In 1909 he fought the last pirate investigate and report, and such as felting roofs and board-chieftain in Indo-China. thereafter throughout the night, ing windows, had been com 1932, in the same colony, he Communist up- On the night of the raid messengers motor-cycles pleted. Then starting from the suppressed a

rising without bloodshed, At the villagers heard aircraft kept the control informed of de- outskirts, where the damage was the time of the French armis-

Cabluct. meanwhile the bulwarks of freedon

was in this war from the moment unsung. that France fell and the designs of the Nazis to conquer the world be came stamped as indelibly on the

fallowed the news.

(formerly Colonel) and

overhead. There was no- thing unusual in that. The Midlands were "going

on

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velopments.:

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But Kirby Muxloe's

In

Was

mind of the man in the street as it

less serious, and working in to-

Gentilliomme was already stamped on the minds

wards the ruined. centre, the tice, Le of knowledgeable people who had

Governor of French Somaliland, squads got down the job of res- Senator Wheeler, Mr Lindbergh

own toring the damaged houses to and he immediately resigned to join the Free. French. At the others of through it" at that time. A.R.P. services were equal to their pre-blitz state. Even the end of April he was with the de their ik will have achieved a tre- Coventry had been blitzed the occasion. They needed no glass went back.

More than two-thirds of the Gaulle forces in Italian East mendous victory for the quislings of and raiders were constant outside help. There was only America as well as for Adolf Hitler ly passing back and forth.

one fire--at a gas main near the houses have now been complete-Africa and last month frighten- wrecked Free Charch-for the ly restored. Only in the centred Vichy into declaring that the if they manage to delay Uncle Sam'x

But this time there was A.F.S. to dent with. And in a of the village do you still see the Free French were about to take aid to the point where it will be use- less. Britons everywhere need fear different sound in the air, surprisingly short time the res- boarded windows and the green no rebuttal on the grounds of self- The drone of the planes, cue squads and wardens, with felt sagging on the roofs. recking when they invite Americans instead of dying away, per-ricated everyone from the de- the shell of that remains. The village.

many willing helpers. had ex- But the church? Not even the one and only ruin in the

Everywhere to urge their fellow enuntrymen to hasten the day of sisted.

is lost for Democracy, Amerlen faces

bris of the ruined houses.-

porch still stands, and in front

·

battle. The "Bght is universal; if it "I don't like the sound of The Free Church minister, of it a nolice-board with n well a period of living under high-pres- these fellows," said Mr Mr J. A. Caldwell, was in his chosen Thought for the Week: sure terror until her day of recken- Armson, local builder (and manse opposite the church. The "Good humour in a fine defence Ing comes: which she must then face one of my informants), to manac, like the church, was against hard knocks,"

wrecked, but Mr Caldwell came The church, too will be res- I may be that Americans have his wife. And the same out with only cuts and bruises, tored. Another notice, inviting avermuch into the Pacifle groove. It sense of foreboding must and he is now conducting ser- contributions to the restoration. may be that Japan will stay her have been felt by everyone vices in the village school. fund, ways: "Wo ask your res- hand through impotence, Indecision

One of the big bombs ex- pect for this ground of hallowed or decency. It is evident that she in the village.

alone,

allowed their thoughts to be diverted

afford to seek a foe in the Pacifle

will not provoke a fight and who can But what could they do ploded in a cottage garden. In memories. We look towards

Stafford with their two daugh- when the real foe Ifes in Europe? It except remain where they the eutinge were Mr and Mrs the future." is not too thitch to hope that July were in their rooms down- tors, Mr. Stafford's spectacles may contain another famous day stairs? A survey of the were broken and one of his oyes

Kirby Muxloe is determined

the day of the declaration of war village was being 'made for was injured. Elipt was all that that the old castle shall remain

against the Axis.

over Somaliland.

William Lord Hastings, who built the castle, had his head chopped off by Richard the Third, and Shakespeare records his dying curse:

O bloody Richard! miscra- ble England!

1 prophesy the fearful'st. time to thee

That over wretched ago hath look'd upon,

My lord cannot have envi- saged times any more fearful than those we live in. But "miserable England?" wonderfid England! ⠀

Nay,