Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-22

ton of its whole life and future.
BY all kinds of sly and savage
means chez is plotting and working
to crush forever the fountain of
characteristic French culture and
French inspirations to the world.
All Europe, If he has his way, will
be reduced to one uniformal Boche
land, to be exploited and pillaged
by his Nazi gangsters.
You will excuse my speaking
frankly, because this Is not a time
to mince words. 1t is not defeat
that France will now be made to
suffer at German hands, but the
doom of complete obliteration.
krmy, navy, air force, religion, laws,
language, culture, institutions. lit
erature, history, tradition, all are
to be effaced by the brute strength
of a triumphant army, and the
scientific low cunning Of ruthless
force.
Frenchmen! Rearm your spirits
before it is too late. Remember
what Napoleon said before one of
his battles. These same Prussians
who are so boastful today were
three to one at Jena and six to one
at Montmirail."
Never will I believe that the soul
of France is dead. Never will I be-
lieve that her great place among
the greatest nations of the world
has been lost forever. All these
schemes and crimes of Herr Hitler
are bringing upon him and upon
all who belong to his system a
retribution which many of us will
live to see. The story is not yet
finished, but it will not be so long.
We are on his track, and so are our
friends across the Atlantic Ocean.
If he cannot destroy us we will
surely destroy him and all his gang
and all their works. Therefore, have
hope and faith, for all will come
right.
Now what is it we British ask of
you in this present hard and bitter
time? What we ask at this moment
in our struggle to win victory, which
we will share with you, is that if
you cannot help us at least you will
not hinder us. Presently you will
be able to weight the arm that
strikes for you, and you ought to
do so, but even now we trust that
Frenchmen, wherever they may be,
will feel their hearts warm and
proud blood kindle in their veins
when We have some success in the
air or on the sea, or presently
for that will come-upon the land
Remember, we shall never stop,
never weary and never give in, and
that our whole people and empire
have vowed themselves to the task
of cleansing Europe from the Nazi
peStllence and saving the world
from new dark ages
DO not imagine, as the German
controlled wireless tells you, that we
English seek to take your ships
and colonies. We seek to beat the
life and soul out of Hitler and Hit
lerlsm-that alone. That all the
time, that to the end. We do net
covet anything from any nation,
except their respect. Those French
men who are in the French Empire,
and those who are in so-callea un-
occupied France, may see their way
from time to time to useful action.
I will not go into details; hostile
ears are listening.
Gather Strength for the Morrow.
AS for those to whom English hearts
go out in full, because they see them
under the sharp discipline, oppres-
sion and spying of the Hun-as to
those Frenchmen in the occupied
regions, to them I say, when they
think of the future, let them re-
member the words which GamDetta,
that great F'renchman, uttered after
1870 about the future of France and
what was to come: Think of it
always: speak of it never"
Good night, then; sleep to gather