FRANCE'S RESISTANCE
Stn,—I should like to endorse every word of the article "How France is Resisting," by Robert Mengin. As one of the many Englishmen who escaped from Occupied and Unoccupied France I received extra- ordinarily generous treatment, regardless of the danger incurred, from peasants, shopkeepers, hotelkeepers, lawyers, doctors and colonels. I have met many others personally with the same story to tell. I have listened and joined in innumerable conversations without disclosing my nationality, and I have always gained the same impression, i.e., that the people of France are whole-heartedly for us, more actively so in Occupied France, and more and more so in Free France. I do not think scene of Marshal Petain's internal policy has received the approval it merits in this country. It is largely influenced by the "Action Francaise," and in his educational reforms he has inaugurated a return to classicism totally untainted by totalitarian philosophy, and I believe many of his reforms will stand the test of time.—I am, Sir,
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