A remarkable career, possible, I imagine, only in France, is
lined in the last Let tre de la France Libre. Rear-Admiral Gee Thierry d'Argenlieu has lately been appointed High Commiss for Free France in the Pacific. The new High Commissioner trained in the French Naval School, and through the whole of last war was hunting U-boats in the Mediterranean ; he ended War, with high honours, as lieutenant-commander. Then, stein enough as it seems, he decided on a monastic life, joined Carmelite Order, and became Louis de la Trinite, Order of calced Carmelites, and later Provincial of the Order in the prov of Paris, devoting himself incidentally to the study of the m doctor, St. John of the Cross. Then, in September, 1939, came again, and Commander d'Argenlieu, hearing a more compe• call, rejoined his old unit. He was taken prisoner at Cherbo but escaped from the convoy in which he was being taken Germany, got back to the French coast, disguised himself peasant, and finally reached England. He served for a time chaplain, but then as a combatant officer, distinguishing him during the abortive attack on Dakar in September, 1940. Si then he has served in West Africa, gone on a mission to F Canadians, and now takes up his new appointment in the Pie After the war, what? Two of his brothers are Dominican me two of his sisters entered the convent of the Dames de S (Discalced, it appears, means barefooted, or sandalled—largelY. someone said, a question of coupons.)
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