The way Germany is treating France, the robbery, the pillage, the razzia,  
increase the anti-Nazi sentiment day by day.  There is even a change since   
I arrived.  The last defenders of Mr. Laval even are edified.  One really  
understands that there is nothing to be done, nothing to hope for from these  
brigands and that only their defeat can assure to Europe and to humanity the  
peace and the concord so earnestly desired.  You cannot imagine the pressure  
exercised by Germany in ever increasing force against us; life becomes really  
intolerable and I fear that we are going straight, and very quickly, to event  
horrible for our country.  As I wrote to you in September France is hostage  
and as the difficulties of the Axis increase the dictators put pressure on  
France in order to blackmail the United States.  Despite this we all prefer  
to suffer, and to suffer still more, if, as we hope, at the end of our   
suffering there is liberation and restoraion of those principles without  
              which life is not worth living.               
 
                                                            
 
 
This will suffice to tell you with what admiration and with what high  
hopes we follow the magnificent actions of President Roosevelt.  His re-  
election was the first good news we had since the sinister days of 1940.  His  
radio talk was greeted in France with a veritable enthusiasm (a silent  
enthusiasm because, alas, we have no longer the right to say anything), but  
         I assure you that the people congratulated