NOT THE END

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 5

NOT THE END

'VOICE OF TRUE FRANCE YET TO BE HEARD. GREATEST BETRAYAL IN HISTORY. An English nurse who served with the French Army, was taken prisoner, and subsequently escaped, writes to the “Times” as follows: —There is too much loose talk in England today that France “has let us down.” The voice of France, the real France, has never been heard. Betrayed without ever having been consulted, those who bled for her, suffered and worked for her, were delivered over to the enemy, without a chance of protesting. The France of 1914 that fought on the Marne and before Verdun, on the plains of Champagne and in the forests of Compeigne in the defence of her soil, the France that leapt again to arms in 1939 and held the line, from the sand-dunes of Flanders to the snow-clad Alps, has suffered the greatest betrayal in history; but as surely as night follows day. so will she rise again to greet us on the day that we drive the invading hordes from her lands. “Ce n’est pas la fin” (This is no the end) is the low spoken watchword of countless imprisoned souls in J rance today. That is the true France we have known and honoured in the past, the blood of whose sons has been shed tor three generations now in the cause o freedom. It is she, not we. who has been “let down.” One of Hitlers foremost aims has always been to smash the Entente Cordiale which ..as united our two peoples for so long. Let us not assist him.