their suffering (which is indeed general, for we eat little and we lack everything).
But, for that very reason, this methodical and continuous plundering of France
exasperates the people, and the population is more anti-Nazi than ever. The
businessmen or politicians (there are some) who reach an agreement with the
Germans will pay dearly, some day, for their present attitude. They are
marked men, and the fury of the populace will turn against them when we have
regained our freedom (if we ever do so|). It may be said that all France is
with England in her fight for liberty. It may be said that all France is
conscious of the high stakes in the game which is being played and in which
our fate is at stake - but, alas, we are (partly through our own fault, for
that matter) in such a position that we can do nothing. We are condemned to
impotence and, what is even worse, to silence. You may say to yourself that
there is no real corresondence between the official attitude of unoccupied
France (radio, press, etc.) and what the French people are really thinking -
for the unanimous respect that surrounds Marshal Petain pers
Unfortunately, it must be said also that at this moment we are all very
uneasy. Uneasy because the German