Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
Niece of Herriot
Sees Frances
Resurrection
Nine. Talon Predicts
I Joyous Welcome for
& Counfry's LiberatorS
By Gretchen Smith.

The enthusiasm which greeted
American and British troops this
week in Tunisia is mild compared
to what they may expect when they
drive the Nazis from French soil.
Nine. Ninon Talon of Paris, France,
told members of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club yesterday.
Speaking at the clubs weekly
luncheon at the Willard Hotel. Nine.
Talon, niece of the former French
premier, Edouard Herriot, said, 1T
is easy to imagine how mad with
joy the people of France must have
been when they learned of the good
news in Africa
Your soldiers, greeted with flow
ers and kisses in Tunis and Bizerte,
saw people coming out of their shat
tered houses to welcome their lib
orators. And yet this people had
only been under the German yoke
for six months. Can you imagine
what welcome your soldiers and
the British will get when they will
come to the soil of France where
people have been suffering from this
SOke 1OI IIldlly years!
The speaker, now in the United
States as free-lance writer who
has contact with her own country
through "the underground, told
how rapidly news spreads through
out France in spite of Nazi censor
ship.
The news of the Tunisian cam
will houo hno,, 1y,,o
people of France almost immedi-
ately after the fall of Tunis and
Bizerte," she commented. 1T is
fact that in occupied countries news
travels more quickly than it does in
countries enjoying free speech"
Mime. Talon told how France has
adopted an ancient method of COM
mun1cating neWS-colored fire.
works-which peasants have hidden
since the arrival of the Germans
When there is victory in the air,
the flame is put alight so that people
know they should contact their hid
den radio, as good news is in store
for them. Good news has been COM
ing lately and many fires have been
lighted at the rim of the forests"
she said.
The speaker told of letters re-
celved from friends overseas telling
Of nervousness and fright apparent
among the German invaders.
They must see the dawn of the
day of reckoning slowly rising over
Occupied France and feel that that
dawn will mean their own twilight
the 'gotterdamerung' of the false
gods they tried to impose on the
people of France she declared
The fifth column, utilized by Nazis
In furthering their interests in oc-
cupied countries, will prove a BOOM
erang in their eventual defeat, Nine.
Talon asserted She said that
first column exists throughout
Europe which operates within the
countries in the. interest of the ma
tives as the fifth column initiates
against them.
The Axis have made great use
OF the fifth column, the column of
traitors" she asserted. ON this
point they will be punished with
their own methods. Inside their
European fortresses they are trem-
bling because they know the first
column is already within the wall
ready to rise and strike when the
hour shall come"
The speaker predicted a France
greater and stronger than ever fol-
lowing the conclusion of war.
Her youth will have survived such
a horrible trial that they will be a
chosen lot of heroes" she concluded.
when you will come to the soil of
France in the course of invasion,
you will be welcomed by a people
awakened from the dead, but in their
eyes you will see the wonderful
light of resurrection"
Nine. Talon was introduced by
Christine Sadler, club president.
Guests included Mrs. H. B. Butler
wife of the Minister of the British
Embassy; Col Armando Ararigboia,
Air Attache of the Brazilian En-
bassy. and Nine. Ararigboia and
Mrs. Willard Tydings, wife of Sena-
tor TNdlngs of Maryland.