Please do not suppose that I have stressed this point. more easily to explain the straightforward dealing which the Englishman expects and receives from hig leaders jin war time. This is not so though it does offer me an opportunity of expressing the admiration which all Frene men feel for your great Prime Minister, Winston Churchill He has always been popular in France where he frequently used to sojourn in the good old days. We have faith in his promises. We believe in him and we envy you in possessing such a fearless and outspoken leader, a leader of free and thinking men. to whom he speaks as he does because he knows you are able "to meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same"
.not a leader of so many sheep. as others have tutined out to be. He inspires one with his own courage and determination, not by wily, mens or by lullabies, and certainly t by bombastic declarations. but by stating the plain naked truth, however painful it may be. last year in June. But he will more joyous mews to announce some day. Be patient and bear that in mind.
When we consider the other warring nations, what strikes one by} contrast, ao extraordinary, is that notwithstanding the mass of official reports and so-called information issued from, say, Berlin and Rome, One can obtain no very exact idea of the attitude of the peoples of Germany and Italy towards the War. We read with eagerness whatever views are published by travellero returning from either country. and we can make a pretty good guess of the situation, but still we find it dificult to form a (really correct picture of what the ordinary man there may think: is he resolute and confident of victory, what are his reactions to bombing from the air. and what dogs he zeally think of the men who direct his destiny?—all questions. the answers to which can be readily supplied as regards Great Britain, Tt almost seems as though the War in these enemy countries is being waged solely by order of those of the helm, whilst in England it is a matter in which the nation and its leaders. united and in full agreement, are one and all playing their part. Who ever heard of Hitler visiting Cologne and Dusseldorf. er of I Duce spending. midst popular acclamation. the afternoon in Naples just now?
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