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has been done away with.

At the same time I acted as secret informer for Marshal Pétain as regards all the Germans were up to in the occupied Zone. With his permission I also kept informed the Resistance Group of Paris in liaison with de Gaulle and that of the South of the Loire; nevertheless I always refused to become a member of one of these groups in which worked my colleagues, most of the College de France for they were almost entirely communists and headed by very doubtful Russian elements - hence their hatred against me. I organized the departure of young Frenchmen who wished to join the Army in Africa, that of Jews and Jewesses fleeing persecutions, I helped one of my subordinates to create a resistance group in Normandy made up of armed patriots; I watched over the rare Americans remaining in France, in particular my old friend Gertrude Stein and her compagnon Alice Toklas, who spent these 4 years in the Ain. I obtained from Pétain that the Préfet and the Sous-Préfet should help them, watch over them and I visited them every year. No evil befell them during these 4 years. Unfortunately for me, Gertrude Stein died in 1945, when she wanted to publicly take my defense.

Naturally, the Germans and their agents suspected my independance and attacked me. From 1942 to 1944, the Journalist Déat, the principal partisan of the Germans in Paris, did not cease to insult me in his newspaper, calling

gratitude and the expression of my friendly and distinguished
sentiments.

(signed) Bernard Fay

P.S. -Miss Alice Toklas, who still lives, rue Christine 5,
Paris, 6e, would certainly be willing to confirm in writing
what I have told you.

P.P.S. - Except for a mere acknowledgment addressed to
Mr. Pierre Conan, Fribourg, Suisse", send me any mail in
which you wish to mention this matter to me through my
brother, Jacques Fay, 31 rue de Bellechasse, who at least every month
sends me my mail through a messenger.