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...survivors, we can only guess what is happening to them. Vague talk of "Morale" is all that we can gather about Germany and Britain. We are told that the French are starving, but we are told in statistical terms that convey no connotations of human suffering. Belgium, Holland, and Poland we suspect to be wastelands. The latest tragedy, the Rumanian cartilage, has been received in this country with calmness and even with rejoicing...
...peace, but for armistice extension. Ultimate settlement is far off, Laval stated, probably not till the end of Germany's military operations; but short-range "precise questions . . . will be answered shortly." "Diplomatic spokesmen" opened up a little. Correspondents scaled down their predictions to soberer internal realities, began to guess more cautiously. From their guesses emerged roughly the following picture...
Just what France was expected to do in return was not immediately apparent. It was anybody's guess. Fact is, the majority of the French people are anti-German, anti-British, pro-French, utterly war-sick. An attempt on the part of the Vichy Government to rouse them to warfare against their former ally would be suicidal. Attempted cession of the fleet to Germany would as likely as not result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British...
...have fought will prevail is as sure as that the truth will always prevail. And I hope that none of you are either afraid or disheartened, because I am not in the slightest. ... I hear some people shouting to me 'Don't give up.' I guess those people don't know me. . . . Don't be afraid and never quit. Good night...
THANKS FOR YOUR GUESS AT MY IDENTITY. ESPECIALLY CHURCHILL JUNIOR. WHY OMIT VIC OLIVER...