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aristocracy is saved!'' — From Memories of Genevieve Tabouis, well known French columnist.
Confusion in France The belief was that even under Hitler France would remain France, and that the dislocation and change would be less under the German rule than if such socialistic reforms as the Blum Popular Front Government inaugurated were continued and extended. An Englishman who later became a member of the Bri-
tish Cabinet told me that while at lunch in a very aristocratic house at Paris he heard two French generals seriously discussing whether it would not be better for France to be beaten by Hitler than rescued by Stalin. The Englishman said that no one at the table seemed in the least put out by this conversation, and added the understatement that it seemed to him that this indifference might augur badly for the future. In the very week when Mussolini stabbed France in the back the wife of the Italian Ambassador at Paris, Mme. Cerutti, was exclaiming over teacups: "But my dear Duchess, if you only knew what a wonderful thing Fascism is! With Fascism the
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1942, Page 2
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