28 NOVEMBER 1941, page 9

* * * * My Preoccupation Is Not With Those

who follow Darlan or who serve Sieburg. It is with the ordinary, decent Frenchman who (stunned by disaster and confused by suffering) falls back upon the traditions and......

Let Me Pursue My Parable. Supposing Thereafter That One And

a-half million of our men were taken as prisoners into Germany and held there as the hostages for our collaboration. Their captivity would not merely drain the very life-blood......

Our First Duty Is To Understand ; And In Order

to do that we must place ourselves in the position of the ordinary decent Frenchman resident in France today. Let me transpose the circumstances. Suppose that in the autumn of......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE resignation of General Weygand is a portent, the full consequences of which it is still impossible to forecast. " After fifty-six years of public service......

I Am Not Suggesting That Marshal Petain Is In Himself

com- parable to Roberts of Kandahar. The latter had a noble nature : Petain does not possess a noble nature. He was a defeatist in 1917 ; he was jealous of Foch ; he is governed......