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...week came a clue to the withdrawal. General Raishiro Sumita, chief of the Japanese "military mission" to Indo-China, called on pro-Vichy Governor General Jean Decoux and told him that Japan was gravely concerned over "increasing activity of anti-Japanese elements" in southern Indo-China. " 'Free Frenchmen' . . . Anglo-American agents . . . Jewish financiers have resumed activities prejudicial to the New Order." The Japanese professed themselves particularly "disturbed" about the south Indo-China port of Saīgon. Saīgon is only 650 sea miles from Singapore...
...Ottawa, the Governor General's lady, alert, peppery Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, founded an organization with the aim of aiding Frenchmen living in Britain (onefourth of the Canadian population is French). Her advice to knitters: "Don't forget French feet are smaller. Knit them size 9½ to 10½ instead of the big socks needed for Canadians...
...exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded killed prisoner...
...need to hear all these voices so warm, so confident, so familiar. English friends, Frenchmen in England or in the United States, speak to us, keep on speaking to us; we listen with fervor, often with the greatest emotion. Our confidence, our hope in you is enormous. No, France will not die. Help...
...fool high-flying enemy pilots. Another dodge of the 1940 camoufleur is to set up fake flying fields, factories, military posts for enemy bombers to shoot at. France, short on planes and morale, went to the foot of the class in this kind of camouflage. Long on bottle corks, Frenchmen floated millions of them on rivers and canals, figured the Germans would think the cork masses were fields...