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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday. February 6, 1965 French resistance Zero remembered the King of the night people following is a speech by Andre Malraux French minister in charge of cultural affairs and a leading figure of 1ha resistance of the Norn. If was delivered on december 19, 1964, on the occasion of the Transfer of Jean ashes to the pantheon where France honors her famous sons whom she wishes to remember. Jean Moulin the unifier of the French underground resistance was general de Gaulle s Delegate in France until his death under torture during the occupation. Or. President of the Republic it is now More than 20 years since Jean Moulin set out in de Cember weather doubtless very like today a to be parachuted Down into Provence and to be come the Leader of a night people. If it were not for this ceremony How Many children of France would have known his name when he found it again himself it was Only to be killed and since that time 16 million children have been born in France let All commemorations of both wars today be brought to a conclusion by a resurrection of the shadowy people this Man inspired of whom he is the sym Bol and whom he now brings with him Here As a Humble ceremonial guard surrounding his dead body. After a lapse of 20 years the resistance has become a limbo of memories in which the organization and its legend inter mingle. I want to Tell you of my meeting with that deep organic age old feeling that has since become legendary among us. In a Village of the Correze District the germans had killed a number of our underground fighters and sent an order to the mayor to have them buried secretly at Dawn. It is the custom in this Region for All the women to be present at the inter ment of any member of their nevertheless when on Jan uary 1, 1942, Jean Moulin was parachuted into France the resistance was still no More than a courageous chaos an under ground press an information service and a conspiracy for organizing troops that did not yet exist. In fact the information being gathered was always intended for one or other of the allies the troops were to be raised Only when the allies landed. It is True that those resisting were men still fighting on in the Al lied cause. But they wanted to Stop being frenchmen who were resisting and become the French resistance. This was Why Jean Moulin went to London. Not Only be cause there were French sol Diers there who might have been merely another military not Only because parts of the French Empire had rallied to free France. Though he came to ask general de Gaulle for Money and arms he came to ask him also for moral approbation and Safe Swift and frequent communications with the general was then Assum ing the full responsibility of Bis no pronounced during the Early Days the continuation of the struggle no matter where no matter How in Short the Des tiny of France. The Force of the appeals made in june 1940 Lay less in those vast forces that have not yet been brought into than in France must be represented in the Victory. Only then will she recover her free Dom and her ceased France not merely a Contin gent of French soldiers. It was Andre Malraux tribute to a fallen Friend a unified Force it could provide them with invaluable military Aid. It had Learned Little by Little that though it is relatively easy to blow up a Bridge it is no less easy to repair whereas though it might be easy for the resistance to blow up 200 Bridges it would be difficult for the germans to repair them All at once. In a word they knew that efficient support for the armies through the free French move Landing in France was i Separ ment that the fighters of Bir Hakeim joined with the under ground fighters to create a fight ing France which had never ceased to struggle. Each group of fighters could justify its existence in the name of the ally Graves of her own family. No one in the Village knew the men who had been killed they were natives of Alsace. Black Clad when they reached the cemetery carried by our own peas ants Between menacing ranks of German Sten gains the night withdrawing slowly like the sea disclosed the Black Clad women of Correze motionless from top to Bottom of the Rocky Hill spaced out in silence each by her own family grave waiting to attend the burial of these French dead. This feeling which gives Rise to legends without which the resistance would never have existed and which brings us All together Here today is per haps simply the invincible voice of our fraternity. How was this fraternity to be organized and formed into a fighting Force we know what Jean Moulin thought about the resistance at the time he left for London it would be Crim Inal Folly in the event of an alb de attack on the continent not to make use of these troops prepared for the greatest Sacri fice still scattered and Leader less today but capable quite soon of forming a coherent army of parachutists already on the spot already familiar with the terrain knowing the enemy s weak Points and exactly where they should this was very much the opinion of general de Gaulle. Was ing it or even simply in the name of its own courage Gen eral de Zatille alone had the Power to Call upon All these Resis Tance movements to unite both with each other and with All the i Able from an Over All plan. The underground fighters would have to dislocate the concentration of German armoured divisions methodically on All the highways on All the railroads i France. And an Over All plan of that sort coulis Only be conceived and executed by a unified resistance move ment. Day after Day this then was the task Towhidi Jean Moulin applied himself Day other theatres of War for through j after Day obstacle after of him and Only through him was j Stacle one resistance group after another and now let s try to talk the neighbors round France engaged struggle. In a single this is Why even at a time inevitably there were problems when president Roosevelt still thought he had to Deal with a rivalry Between generals or Par ties the French army from Africa was to fight from prov ence up to the Vosges. In the name of gaullist As did the troops of the communist party. This is Why Jean Moulin took away with him in the false Bot Tom of a Matchbox a Micro photograph of his very simple orders it is m. Moulin s official Mission to bring about in the zone of metropolitan France not directly subject to enemy occupation a Unity of action amongst All elements offering resistance to the enemy and their Manitoba vacuum service repairs hoses service for All makes of vacuum cleaners and floor polishers. New and used cleaners plus the All new Hoover washing machine. Spin dry combination available on easy terms free pick up delivery 801 Corydon ave. Or 4-1615 inexhaustible he pointed out to the leaders of the various groups the danger that would result from the fragmentation of the resistance tinder different leaders. Each succeeding event of capital importance Russia s entry into War that of the United states the landings in North Africa strengthened his Posi Tion. After the african landings it became evident that France was about to become once More a theatre of operations. But the underground press the information service even when supplemented by the secret net work within the Public administration services were geared to the occupation and not to the War As a whole. Though the resistance move ment realized it could never lib Erate France without the allies it was now also aware that As notice under the rules of the legislative Assembly All applications for private Bills properly the subject of legislation by the legislative Assembly of Manitoba require a notice specifying the nature and object of the application by or on behalf of the applicants to be published Between the close of the next preceding session and the time of the consideration of the petition in four issues of the Manitoba Gazette and one other newspaper printed in English. Within one week after the final publication of the notices above mentioned the Petitioner shall file with the clerk a declaration proving to the satisfaction of the clerk the due publication of those notices. Three copies proposed Bill shall be placed Fay the Petitioner in the hands of the Law officer at least two weeks if possible before the first publication of the notices mentioned in Rule 103 of the rules of the legislative Assembly. Every private Bill ror an act of incorporation or in amendment of any such act shall be drawn in accordance with the Model Bill in appendix c of the rules of the legislative Assembly with such variations and additions As May be approved by the Law officer. Any exceptional provisions that it May be proposed to insert in any Bill shall be clearly specified in the application thereof. For further particulars apply to Charland prud homme clerk of the legislative Assembly. Legislative building. Winnipeg. School openings available the unitarian school of religion has expanded to two sessions each sunday and now has room for More pupils at . Sunday children s faces looking up holding wonder like a there is cause for wonder in the tiny seed in the vast expand ing Galaxy. We strive to stir our child s sense of wonder As a part of his growing understanding of life s meaning. If this appeals to you bring your children to unitarian House Sargent and Banning streets sundays at . A program for adults As Well caused by conflicting personalities and even greater ones by the poverty of the drench fight ers by the exasperating certainty of each underground group that the Little it did have was going to be taken away and Given to another group which in its turn was being goaded to fury by the same illusion which of us can even know How much determination it took to talk the same language As Radical or reactionary school teachers As reactionary or lib eral officers As trotskyite or communists fresh from Moscow All sworn to fight for the same Freedom or share the same Pris on or know How much firmness of character it required from a Friend of the Spanish Republic a former left Wing prefect deprived of his Post by the Vichy government to insist that cer Tain former members of a Sec ret fascist organization the Goule be accepted As compan ions in the common struggle Jean Moulin has no need of borrowed glory it was not he who started combat. Liberation or franc Mireur but Frenay d Astier and Jean Pierre Levy. It was not he who created those Many resistance movements in the Northern zone which will have their own place in history. It was not he who formed the regiments but it was he who made them into an army. Gaullist to allow Small importance to so called political opinion at a time when the nation was in peril of destruction the nation not nationalism crushed by then beneath the tracks of Hitler s tanks but the unconquerable mysterious and fundamental fact which was to shape this age to believe that it would soon gain dominance Over the totalitarian doctrines reverberating through out Europe at the time to recognize the Unity of the. Movement As the key weapon our struggle to unite the nation All this was perhaps to affirm what has since been Given the gaullist. It was with out a doubt a proclamation of France s decision to survive. In february this passionate agnostic had already established radio Contact with London from the loft of a rectory. In april the information and propaganda service then the Comite general Des Etudes were formed. In september the functions of the secret cells within the Public administration services. Finally general de Gaulle decided on the creation of a. Coordinating com Mittee which was to be presided Over by Jean Moulin assisted by the head of the United under ground army. The prehistory of the resistance had come to a close. From be ing coordinator. Of the. Resistance in the Southern zone Jean Mou Lin became its Leader in Jan uary 1943, ithe committee direct ing the United resistance move ments Whit until the libera Tion we were to Les Murs was created his presidency. In february he set off once More for London with general Deles traint head of the underground army and Jacques Dalsace. The most moving account of this stay has been Given to us by colonel Passy very Pale i can still see Moulin very Pale in the grip of the emotion that had seized us All standing a few feet in front of the Gen eral and the latter saying almost in a whisper come to Atten then we recognize you As our companion in the struggle to liberate France in All Honor and through Victory. And while de Gaulle was giving him the accolade a tear heavy with gratitude Pride and fierce determination ran gently Down the Pale Cheek of our com Rade Moulin. As he held his head High we could still see the Mark across his Throat left by the razor slash he gave himself in 1940 to avoid giving Way beneath the of the enemy " the tortures of the enemy in charged with constituting and presiding Over the National Council of the resistance. Jean Moulin climbed into an air plane that was to Parachute him Down just northward of Roanne. This National Council of the resistance which grouped to Gether All the movements Par ties and Trade unions throughout France represented not Only a precariously established Unity but also the certainty that on the Day of the Allied Landing Tho tattered army of the resistance would be waiting for the armoured divisions of the liberation. Transformed Jean Moulin returned to meet with All its members and to Weld them with great difficulty into a whole. He also returned to a resistance that had been tragically transformed. Until that Point it had fought As an army faced with the possibilities of Victory or death or of Captivity. If was now becoming aware the concentration Camps the inevitability of torture. Hence Forth it was to fight on face to face with a perpetual horror. Haying received a report on the concentration Camps he said to his Liaison officer Suzette Olivier i Hope that they will shoot us there was to Biro need of shooting him. The resistance grew those who evaded conscription into the forced labor Camps soon began the ranks of the under ground fighters the Gestapo also grew its patrols were every where. Those were the Days when in the Countryside we listened with a question in our hearts to the Barking of dogs in the Depths of the night the Days when the multicoloured Para chutes loaded with arms and cigarettes swung Down from the sky in beams of Light from for est clearings or Bare Chalk Downs the Days of cellars and of despairing cries from men being tortured shrieking with the voices of Little children the great struggle in the dark Ness had begun. On May 27, 1943, in Paris on the Rue do four there took place the first meeting of the National Council of the Resis Tance. Unity Jean Moulin recalled to its members the Aims of the free French to continue the War to restore self government to the French people to re establish Republican Freedom in a state from which social Justice will not be excluded and which will have a sense of greatness to work with the allies toward the establishment of real economic and social collaboration Between nations in a world in which France shall have regained her pres then he read out a message from general de Gaulle which set out the first of the resistance Council As the preservation of Unity in the resistance which it represented. Daily peril of each one of its members. In june ,9th general. Deles traint head of the underground army unified at last was taken in Paris. He left no obvious successor a. Frequent occurrence in under ground movements Jean Moulin was to say Many times before the e arrival of Serr Eules if i were captured i should not even have had time to Brief a second in command he wished therefore to nominate his successor after reach ing an agreement on the subject with All the various move ments in particular those in Hie Southern zone. He was to meet delegates on the 21st at Cal Rire. They did in fact wait for him there. So did the Gestapo. Treachery treachery played its part in these events and also Fate which decreed that although Jean Moulin almost always punctual arrived three quarters of an hour late the German police should also be correspondingly delayed. Before very Long they Learned that they bad captured the head of the resistance. In vain. On the Day when a Gestapo agent in the fort at to Nuoc after having his Pris Oner tortured handed him a pen cil and paper since he could no longer talk Jean Moulin scrib bled a caricature of his Tormen Tor. For the terrible sequel let us listen to the very simple words of his sister he has played his part and now his agony is beginning. Scorned savagely beaten his head All bloody his insides burst open he reaches the limits of human suffering without once betraying a single secret he who knew them let us be quite Clear that Dur ing those few Days when he was still Able to speak or write the Fate of the resistance Hung on the courage of this one Man. As mile. Moulin says he k n e w everything. Georges Bidault was to take his place. But now Here is the Triumph of that silence he paid for with his agony the pendulum swings. Leader of the resistance martyred in those hideous cellars look with your vanished eyes upon these Black Clad women As they keep Vigil Over our companions they Are in mourning for their country and for you. King of Shadow is watch As they Glide beneath the Dwarf Oaks of the Quercy Countryside with their Flag of knotted Muslin rags those secret fighters in the undergrowth whom the Gestapo will never find be cause they Are looking Only for tall Trees. See the prisoner who goes into a Villa and wonders Why they put him in a bathroom he has not yet heard to what use that running water May be put. Poor tortured King of shadows see your people As they Rise in the june night lit by the stars of countless tortures. Now comes the Thunder of the German tanks As they Roll Back North to Normandy through the sad bellowing of the awakened cattle thanks to you those tanks will not arrive in time. Armless Man not held Back Alberni . Top nearly a year ago 24-year-old Allan Brett a resident of this Van Couver Island Community lost both arms below the elbows in a working Accident. Today he is driving a car and thinking about entering univer sity. The fatties of two recently became the first person in Brit ish Columbia without forearms and hands to receive a Driver s licence. He accomplished the feat us ing artificial limbs fitted last Spring. He steers with a special ring fitted to the steering wheel and uses a foot operated Emer gency Brake. Or. Brett credits his come Back to his Duree and the workmen s compensation Board s rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver where he Learned to use his artificial limbs. His arms had to be amputated after they were caught up in some machinery at the Mac Millan Bloedel and Powell River limited pulp and paper division Here where he worked. Unions at the Plant raised in. Individual donations. More than in doctor and Hospital Bills were paid by the Union. He received another 500 in insurance. The fam suffered another setback last easter when a tidal wave following the Alaska earthquake wrecked their Home Here. Or. Brett moved his family to a rented House and supports them on a compensation Board pension while he furthers his education. He completed Grade 12 in the and is now looking toward University. I m not sure what i d like to study at uni but f want a Educa and when the Allied breakthrough begins prefect see the servants of the Republic Rise i then municipalities ail those Itiat were not killed. You like us have envied the heroic scarecrows of Leclerc watch fellow fighter As your own scarecrows come crawling from beneath their scrubby Oaks and with those peasants hands now trained to handle their. Bazookas halt one of the Foremost armoured divisions in Hitler s Empire the one they Call Das Reich As Leclerc took his place in the invalids with his cortege of High beneath the Sun of Africa and Bis Battles in Alsace take your place Here Jean Moulin with your terrible cortege. In cellars with those who died in cellars As you did without speaking and even a yet More atrocious Fate perhaps having spoken with the striped and shaven headed prisoners of the concentration Camps with the last stumbling body in the appalling lines of night and fog falling finally beneath the Rifle Butts with the French who did nor return from penal servitude with the last woman who died in Ravens Bruck because she sheltered one of our companions in her Home. Take your place Here with your people who were born in that darkness and vanished with it our Fellows in the brother Hood of night commemorating the liberation of Paris i said listen tonight Young people of my country for the anniversary Bells that Are going to ring just rang now 14 years ago. Each one of you will hear them this time they Are going to ring for the tribute that we pay today Calls Only for the song which in now about to Rise that song of the partisans which i have heard murmured quietly like an Assur Ance of complicity and Sung like a psalm in the mists of the Vas Ges and the Woods of Alsace mingling with the lost cry of the ram Mascot of mar Pecan troops As the bazookas of Cor Reze advanced to encounter run-1 Stedt s tanks being hurled once More on Strasbourg. Listen today people of France to what was for us the song of the dark Days. It is the funeral March of the ashes you see Here. Beside those of Carnot with the soldiers of the year ii beside those of Victor Hugo with Les miserable and those of Jaures Over Wahidi Justice still keeps Vigil let them lie Here with their Long cortege of Muti lated ghosts. On his Day youth of France think of this Man As you would have brought your hands near to his poor shapeless face on that last Day to the lips which had not spoken on that Day it was the face of France. Garden gimmick floats and mows by Bob Mellard London the sunday times with the Advent of the hovercraft it was Only a matter of time before the idea was adopted by the Garden engineers and the first air Cushion Lawn Mower will make its appearance shortly. The Fly Moas it is called floats on its own Cushion of air. It hovers about it Inch above the ground and is extremely manoeuvrable and easy to use. This idea of building this unique Mower was originated by Sweden s Karl Dahl Man who after overcoming All tie problems and there have been quite a got manufacture under Way in Denmark and . The machine has been in general distribution for Over a your. Its Power is derived from an air cooled two stroke engine and the Mak ers claim that it will Cut 500 Square Yards of grass in 15 minutes. The Mower needs Only Finger tip guidance in use it becomes weight less. Its swedish steel rot Ary Blade gives a Cut of 19 inches in Width and including the engine the Over All weight is Only 27 pounds. This is certainly the Only Lawn Mower i have tried which floats up Steep Banks As though it enjoyed the Job. Being rotary it will not of course leave those Light and dark Green Sward lines so beloved by the. English gardeners but the rotary Blade revolving at revolutions a minute does give a first class Cut. The Only reservation i have a bout it is that tie engine is rather noisy. I have never found this Type of engine to be an easy starter although on the continent and elsewhere it is held in High regard. Certainly of the two stroke engines i have seen this is one of the Best. 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