ATTITUDE TO FRANCE
The English attitude of mind towards the French at the present time is of exceptional interest, says a writer in the Spectator, London. Those whose opinion has always been, "Never trust a Froggy!" are inevitably Avagging their insular tails; thev have always had their stubborn counterparts in ■ France, and their generalisation is directly translatable as "Pcrlide Albion!" On the other hand, a French woman who escaped from Bordeaux with her children lias told me that she has been astonished by the sympathy, the kindness and the absence of reproach against her country that she has everywhere encountered in England. Our common soldiers a{> pear to have smilingly and without bitterness written oil' the temporary loss of an ally. One of them, whom I suspected of being a rather prematllrc i&gjjftran. while waiting his turn at darts, was inclined to lecture on the adventure of Dunkirk. "When "I was in France , " lie began.' His . dart-playing companion interrupted him swiftly: "France?" said he. "Never 'card, of such a place " A piece of dialogue which a dramatist would give his head to have invent-
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 6
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184ATTITUDE TO FRANCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 6
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