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The French people have put

heir hand to a treaty. I see
aillions of hands, the hands of
aris workers, Burgundy wine
rowers, Breton fishermen, the
ands of guerrillas, the hands
£ little hopeful children, the
ands of mothers raised in
lessing. And if I were asked
ho sent the representatives to
ioscow to conclude a treaty of
siendship with the Soviet
jnion, I would answer: the
rench people.

:
"HIS is not the first time the
people are revivitying the
tench Army.

They did so in the days of
almy, when the patriots crea-
ed a foree which beat the
ries of the counter-revolu-
onary coalition.

They did so at Sedan, when

france already half lost, was
wed by the France Tireurs and
lé popular levies.

They are doing so now: the
fresh ~ blood in the veins of
rance is the blood of the peo-
le. There are now in the
Fenech Army majors and colo-
sis who were recently “second-
ass soldiers.’ Three years
ley fought in the mountains
Savoy and Auvergne.

To the splendid tradition of
le French Army they added
eshness, boldness and their
2S with the people.

And now we see the still in-
lequately armed French Army

chtine: manfully. It has scored -

any a victory and is surging

Friendship _

across the Rhine. The Red

Army hails it as a tried and
courageous ally. Together we
will tie the hands of the old
German witch. Together we will
demand a reckoning for every-
thing: for June 1940 and June
194].

The soldiers know the mean-
ing of mud and blood, smoke
and snow, bread bitter with

grief and days hot with wrath.-

Together with the French, to-
gether with all our allies, we -
shall see the victory. Together
with them-we shall eut the first
loaf of happiness and swallow
the first glass of peace.

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Foibles, Fancies And Facts

Sieg Heil !

Adolf Delivers a New Year's Speech— “Volksgenossen, WVolksturme, Volksgeleben-
staumgauleiterparteiblutgeschreklichkeit and just plain Volks!
_. the year 1944 saw our greatest successes. The Allies boasted they would cross the
British Channel and storm Fortress Europe, but. when they arrived they couldn’t find the
fortress, thus revealing themselves to be empty braggarts.

_ We forced them’ to capture half a million of our soldiers who are now in Allied
DESCe camps. Thus we demonstrate to the world how National Socialism solves the food
problem. : : :

“Then we led the British and Americans in a merry chase across' the whole of
France, compelling them to extend their lines of communication so far that, if extended
still more they will soon be in Berlin where an unpleasant surprise awaits them—all mu-
seums will be closed. .

“Meanwhile on the Eastern Front the Red Army boasted it would clear us out of the
Baltic and driye into Poland. What a hollow boast!—they had to fight for every 153
miles of the way!”

“We scored our greatest triumph of all time, however, when at the approach of the
Red Army, our allies, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary collapsed—-proving to the
entire world the superiority of the Third Reich and the National Socialist system which has
still to collapse and, when it does, will outco llapse anything history has ever known.

“Volksgenossen, I honor the Almighty for making me se@ wise and courageous. All
hail to the year 1945 when we will achieve total victory by drawing the armies of all our.
enemies onto our territory where they will be completely surrounded by the invincible
Se ot the Third Reich!” (From “Point of Order’ by Alan Max in the New York

orker. : ;

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: U.S. President Looks At Unity
We need the continuing friendship of our allies in this war. Indeed that need is a —
matter of life and death. And we need that friendship in tlie peace. .. . The wedge that
the Germans attempted to drive in Western Europe was less dangerous in terms of win-

ning the war than the wedges they are con tinually attempting to drive between our-
selves'and our allies. (From President Roosevelt's Message to Congress, January 1945.)

Guess Who?

_.__ I unhesitatingly support British imperialism as the lesser evil. Under.the.worst-pos-
sible setup, even under governments which include monarchists and reactionaries, and
which are satellites of Britain, democracy will survive and struggle for social reform can go
forward. Nor should opposition to British imperialism blind us to the truth that Russian
imperialism at this moment is as much worse than the imperialism of the democracies as
Nazi imperialism is worse than Russian. (From the American “New Leader,” organ of the
U.S. Social Democrats, whose December conference CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell graced
with his approving presence. ) : :

_ To the Point

At the: Teheran Conference, Premier Stalin told a story that still has diplomats
laughing:

The neighbor of an Arab sheik asked for the loan of a rope. :

“I cannot lend it,” replied the sheik; “for I need it’to tie up my milk with.”

“But surely,” said the other, “you do not tie up your milk with a rope.”’

“Brother,” said the sheik, “when you don’t want to do something, one reason is as
good as another.” (Quoted from Liberty, Toronto, in the Canadian Tribune.)

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