27 OCTOBER 1944, Page 10

Of all the tributes which I have heard and the

most convincing came to me from a French friend who had spent three years in occupied France and who had then escaped. "It is a curious thing, he said, "but all my life the word Londres ' has suggested some- what dark associations—ft, and low clouds, and the smell of petrol and tobacco. But now it suggests light and hope and truth and freedom. You will never know what those two words meant to us ; those two words Lc-Andres.'" I told this story to Duchesne. "You have done a great job for your country," I said. "You must feel satisfied:" He paused for a moment. "Yes," he answered.