Would France Fight ?
SIR,—I have received the following from an acute observer married to a Frenchwoman :- "The logic of the Frenchman and his intelligence are too great to give him confidence in present defensive arrangements. France has not great manpower _reserves. Her population increase was interfered with by the satanic cleverness of Hitler, who kept as prisoners one million young Frenchmen for several years, and thus denied her several million babies. The unfortunates who live in the north and Pas de Calais have a horror of re-invasion and liberation, both processes being destructive, demoralis- ing and disorganising. The only solution is a United Europe Army:' The letter is dated prior to Churchill's speech at Strasbourg.—I am. Sir,
your obedient servant, WINST FR. Fivewents Way, Crowborough, Sussex.
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