The Archive · 1940

French Opinion

Then there was a French friend of mine who served as a liaison officer fu the last war, who told me how horrified he had been on one of the first occasions that he visited a British sector, to find the troops singing with the greatest gusto, and with apparent I the most. poisonous venom, an English translation of the German jymin_of Hate." The way in which they spat out the word "England" as the object of their hate appalled him and it was with difteulty that he was made 10 understand by English officers, who naturally enjoyed the Timour of the thing, that i was all

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