WARRIORS OF FRANCE
TRUE AND NOBLE BOAST. The virility of the French will always remain a mystery to me. says Mr Harold Nicolson. writing in the ‘’Spectator” on his recent visit to the Western Front. How comes it that they are so disciplined as soldiers and so subversive as civilians? lit ‘Prelude to Victory.” General Spears has devoted some excellent pages to this very problem. He concludes that the Frenchman accepts military service as "a free gift of himself to the land he loves.” And that, whereas he never trusts his politicians, he does constantly trust his officers. A French friend of mine lias given me a further explanation. "We French." he wrote to me recently, "are always the same. We are anti- militarists by nature, but we are also warriors.” That is a true and noble boast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 9
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