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  Speaker 1: Section one of Dispatches from the Ruer. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Dispatches from the Ruer by
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  Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway, Section one, A victory without peace forced the
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  Speaker 1: French to undertake the occupation of the Ruer Explanatory note.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty three, Ernest Hemingway lived in Toronto, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and was employed as a correspondent by the Toronto Star.
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  Speaker 1: The paper sent him to France and Germany to report
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  Speaker 1: on the occupation of the Rher Valley by French soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in response to a dispute overpayment of war reparations as
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  Speaker 1: the result of the end of World War I. This
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  Speaker 1: e book is a compilation of ten articles written by
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  Speaker 1: Hemingway from April third, nine, nineteen twenty three to May sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three. Some Wild Spending. The following is the
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  Speaker 1: first of a series of articles on the Franco German
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  Speaker 1: situation by Ernest M. Hemingway, staff correspondent of The Star Paris,
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  Speaker 1: April third to write about Germany. You must begin by
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  Speaker 1: writing about France. There is a magic in the name France.
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  Speaker 1: It is a magic like the smell of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: or the site of blue hills, or of soldiers marching by.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very old magic. France is a broad
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  Speaker 1: and lovely country, the loveliest country that I know. It
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  Speaker 1: is impossible to write impartially about a country when you
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  Speaker 1: love it, but it is possible to write impartially about
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  Speaker 1: the government of that country. France refused in nineteen seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to make a peace without victory, now finds that she
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  Speaker 1: has a victory without peace. To understand why this is so,
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  Speaker 1: we must take a look at the French government. France
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  Speaker 1: at present is governed by a Chamber of Deputies elected
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen nineteen. It was called the Horizon Blue Parliament
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  Speaker 1: and is dominated by the famous Block Nacionale or Wartime Coalition.
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  Speaker 1: This government has two years more to run. The Liberals,
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  Speaker 1: who were the strongest group in France, were disgraced when
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  Speaker 1: Clement Sau destroyed their government in nineteen seventeen on the
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  Speaker 1: charge that they were negotiating for peace without victory from
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  Speaker 1: the Germans. Caillo admitted the best financier in France, the
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  Speaker 1: Liberal premier was thrown into prison. There were almost daily
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  Speaker 1: execution by firing squads, of which no report appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the papers. Very many enemies of Clemenceau found themselves standing
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  Speaker 1: blindfolded against the stone wall at Versailles in the cold
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  Speaker 1: of the early morning, while a young lieutenant nervously moistened
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  Speaker 1: his lips before he could give the command. The great
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  Speaker 1: unled opposition, this liberal group is practically unrepresented in the
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  Speaker 1: Chamber of Deputies. It is the great unformed, unled opposition
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  Speaker 1: to the Block Nacionale, and it will be crystallized into
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  Speaker 1: form at the next election in nineteen twenty four. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot live in France any length of time without having
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  Speaker 1: various people tell you in the strictest confidence that Cayo
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  Speaker 1: will be Prime Minister again in nineteen twenty four. If
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  Speaker 1: the occupation of the Ruer fails, he has a very
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  Speaker 1: good chance to be. There will be the inevitable reaction
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  Speaker 1: against the present government. The chance is that it will
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  Speaker 1: swing even further to the left and pass over Cayo
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  Speaker 1: entirely to exalt Marcel Cachan, the communist leader. The present
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  Speaker 1: opposition to the Block nacionale in the Chamber of Deputies
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  Speaker 1: is furnished by the left. When you read of the
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  Speaker 1: right and left in continental politics, it refers to the
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  Speaker 1: way the numbers are seated in Parliament. The Conservatives are
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  Speaker 1: on the right, the monarchists are on the extreme right
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  Speaker 1: of the floor, The radicals are on the left, the
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  Speaker 1: Communists on the extreme left. The extreme Communists are on
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  Speaker 1: the outside seats of the extreme left. The French Communist
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  Speaker 1: Party has twelve seats in the chamber out of six hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Marcel Cachian, editor of the Humanite with the circulation of
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand, is the leader of the party. Vallanc Couturier,
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  Speaker 1: a young subaltern of Chasseur, who is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most decorated men in France, is his lieutenant. The Communists
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  Speaker 1: lead the opposition of Monsieuse point Careers. They charge him
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  Speaker 1: with having brought on the war, with having desired the war.
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  Speaker 1: They always refer to him as Poonquet le guire. They
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  Speaker 1: charge him with being under the domination of Leon d'audet
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  Speaker 1: and the Royalists. They charge him with being under the
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  Speaker 1: domination of the iron Kings, the coal kings. They charge
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  Speaker 1: him with many things some of them very ridiculous, spits
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  Speaker 1: like angry cat. Monsieur pont Carey sits in the chamber
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  Speaker 1: with his little hands and little feet and his little
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  Speaker 1: white beard, and when the Communists insult him too far,
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  Speaker 1: spits back at them like an angry cat. When it
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  Speaker 1: looks as though the Communists had uncovered any real dirt
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  Speaker 1: and members of the government begins to look doubtfully at
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  Speaker 1: Monsius Pont carrey renee, Viviani makes a speech. Monsieur Vivianni
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest orator of our times. You have only
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  Speaker 1: to hear Monsieur Vianni pronounce the words the Guard de
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  Speaker 1: France to want to rush out and get into uniform.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, after he has made his speech, you
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  Speaker 1: find it pasted up on post all over the city.
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  Speaker 1: Moscow has recently purified the French Communist Party. According to
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  Speaker 1: the Russian Communists, the French party was mawkishly patriotic and
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  Speaker 1: weak willed. All members who refused to place themselves directly
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  Speaker 1: under orders from the Central Party in Moscow were asked
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  Speaker 1: to turn in their membership cards. A number did. The
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  Speaker 1: rest are now considered purified, but I doubt if they
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  Speaker 1: remain for long the Frenchman is not a good internationalist.
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  Speaker 1: The Blocknacional is made up of honest patriots and representatives
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  Speaker 1: of the Great Steel Trust, the Coal Trust, the wine industry,
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  Speaker 1: other smaller profiteers ex army officers, professional politicians, careerists, and
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  Speaker 1: the Royalists. Royalist Party well organized. While it may seem
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  Speaker 1: fantastic to think of France having a king again, the
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  Speaker 1: Royalist Party is extremely well order organized, is very strong
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  Speaker 1: in certain parts of the south of France, controls several newspapers,
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  Speaker 1: including Lexient Francais, and has organized a sort of fascisti
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  Speaker 1: called the Camelo de Nois. It has a hand in
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  Speaker 1: everything in the government and was the greatest advocate of
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  Speaker 1: the advance into the Rurre and the further occupation of Germany.
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  Speaker 1: There briefly are the political parties in France and the
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  Speaker 1: way they line up. Now we must see the causes
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  Speaker 1: that force France into the Rure. France has spent eighty
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  Speaker 1: billion francs on reparations. Forty five billion franc has been
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  Speaker 1: spent on reconstructing the devastated regions. There is a very
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  Speaker 1: great scandal talked in France about how that forty five
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  Speaker 1: billions were spent. Deputy Angles of the Department of the
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  Speaker 1: Nord said the other day in the Chamber of Deputies
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  Speaker 1: that twenty five billions of it went for graft. He
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  Speaker 1: offered to present the facts any time the Chamber would
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  Speaker 1: consent to hear him. He was hushed up. At any rate.
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  Speaker 1: Forty five billions were spent wildly and rapidly, and there
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  Speaker 1: are very many now devastated region millionaires. In the Chamber
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  Speaker 1: of Deputies, the deputies asked for as much money as
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  Speaker 1: they wanted for their own districts and got it, and
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  Speaker 1: a good part of the regions are still devastated. The
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  Speaker 1: point is that the eighty billions have been spent and
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  Speaker 1: are charged up as collectible from Germany. They stand on
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  Speaker 1: the credit side of the Ledger. If at any time
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  Speaker 1: the French government admits that any part of those eighty
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  Speaker 1: billion franc are not collectible, they must be moved over
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  Speaker 1: to the bad side of the ledger and listed as
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  Speaker 1: a loss rather than an asset. There are only thirty
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  Speaker 1: billions of paper franc in circulation today. If France admits
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  Speaker 1: that any part of the money spent and charged to
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  Speaker 1: Germany is uncollectable, she must issue paper Fronc to pay
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  Speaker 1: the bonds floated to raise the money she has spent
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  Speaker 1: that means inflation of her currency, resulting and starting the
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  Speaker 1: franc on the Greece skid. The Austrian Cronan and German
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  Speaker 1: Mark traveled down Why Brian fell. When Aristide briand former
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  Speaker 1: Prime minister who looks like a bandit and is the
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  Speaker 1: natural son of a French dancer and a cafe keeper
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  Speaker 1: of San Jazaire, agreed at the Cahn conference to a
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  Speaker 1: reduction in reparations in return for Lloyd George's defense pact,
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  Speaker 1: his ministry was overthrown almost before he could catch the
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  Speaker 1: train back to Paris. The weasel eyed Monsieur Arago, leader
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  Speaker 1: of the Block Nacionale, and Monsieur Bartheu, who looks like
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  Speaker 1: the left hand smith brother or at Khannes watching every
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  Speaker 1: move of Brian, and when they saw he was leaning
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  Speaker 1: toward a reduction of reparations, they prepared to skid him
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  Speaker 1: out and get pointc Carey and accomplish the coup before
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  Speaker 1: breonn knew what was happening to him. The Bloc Nacional
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford to have anyone cutting down on reparations because
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  Speaker 1: it does not want any inquiry as to how the
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  Speaker 1: money was spent. The memory of the Panama Canal scandal
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  Speaker 1: is still fresh. Point Carey came into office pledged to
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  Speaker 1: collect every soup possible from Germany. The story of how
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  Speaker 1: he was led to refuse the offer of the German
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  Speaker 1: industrialists to take over the payment of reparations if it
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  Speaker 1: was reduced to a reasonable figure, and the sinister tale
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  Speaker 1: that is unfolding day by day in the French Chamber
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  Speaker 1: of Deputies about how Pointcarey was forced into the Roar
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  Speaker 1: against his own will and judgment. The strange story of
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  Speaker 1: the rise of the Royalists in France and their influence
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  Speaker 1: on the present government will be told in the next article.
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  Speaker 1: End of section one, Section two of Dispatches from the
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  Speaker 1: Ruar by Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Read by Atulsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Section two French
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  Speaker 1: Royalist Party most solidly organized. Point Krey calls his opponent
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  Speaker 1: at Groaudain. The following is the second of a series
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  Speaker 1: of articles on the Franco German situation. The next article
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  Speaker 1: will appear in the Star on Saturday, by Ernest M. Hemingway,
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  Speaker 1: Special correspondent of The Star, Paris, April sixth. Raymond point
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  Speaker 1: Carey is a changed man. Until a few months ago,
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  Speaker 1: the little white bearded Laurine lawyer, in his patent leather
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  Speaker 1: shoes and his gray gloves, dominated the French Chamber of
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  Speaker 1: Deputy with his methodical accountant's mind and his spitfire temper.
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  Speaker 1: Now he sits quietly and forlornly, while fat, white faced
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  Speaker 1: Leon Daudet shakes his finger at him and says, France
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  Speaker 1: will do this, France will do that. Leon Doude, son
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  Speaker 1: of old al Fonse Doudet, the novelist, is the leader
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  Speaker 1: of the Royalist Party. He is also editor of Laxien Francaise,
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  Speaker 1: the Royalist paper, an author of lentremetieus or the Procureesse,
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  Speaker 1: a novel whose plot could not even be outlined in
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  Speaker 1: any newspaper printed in English. The Royalist Party is perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the most solidly organized in France today. That is a
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  Speaker 1: surprising statement to those who think of France as a
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  Speaker 1: republic with no thought of ever being anything else. The
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  Speaker 1: Royalist headquarters are a name in the south of France,
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  Speaker 1: and Provence is almost solidly Royalist. The Royalists have the
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  Speaker 1: solid support of the Catholic Church, it being an easily
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  Speaker 1: understood fact that the Church of Rome thrives better under
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  Speaker 1: European monarchies than under the French Republic. Philippe, the Duke
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  Speaker 1: of Orleans, is the Royalist candidate for King. Philippe lives
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  Speaker 1: in England, is a big, good looking man and rides
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  Speaker 1: very well to hounds. He is not allowed by law
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  Speaker 1: to enter France a Royalist FASCISTI. There is a Royalist
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  Speaker 1: FASCISTI called the Camelo Durrois. They carry black loaded canes
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  Speaker 1: with salmon colored handles, and at twilight you can see
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  Speaker 1: them in montmart swaggering along the streets with their canes
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  Speaker 1: a little way ahead and behind a newsboy who is
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  Speaker 1: crying laxient Frances in the radical quarter of the Old Butte.
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  Speaker 1: Newsboys who carry laxient Frances into radical districts without the
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  Speaker 1: protecting guard of camelot are badly beaten up by the
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  Speaker 1: communists and socialists. In the past year, the Royalists have
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  Speaker 1: received a tremendous impetus in some mysterious way. It has
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  Speaker 1: come on so rapidly and suddenly that from being more
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  Speaker 1: or less of a joke. They are now spoken of
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  Speaker 1: as one of the very strongest parties. In fact, Doudet
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  Speaker 1: is marked for assassination by the extreme radicals, and men
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  Speaker 1: are not assassinated until they are considered dangerous. An attempt
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  Speaker 1: on his life was made by an anarchist a month
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  Speaker 1: or so ago. The girl assassin killed his assistant Marius
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  Speaker 1: Plateau by mistake. General Morgan, the famous commander of attack troops,
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  Speaker 1: nicknamed the Butcher, is a Royalist. He was the only
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  Speaker 1: great French general who was not made a marshal. He
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  Speaker 1: can always be seen in the Chamber of Deputies. When
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  Speaker 1: Leon Daudet is to speak, it is the only time
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  Speaker 1: he comes. Want no reper now, the Royalist party wants
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  Speaker 1: no reparations from Germany. Nothing would frighten them more than
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  Speaker 1: if Germany should be able to pay in full tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: for that would mean that Germany was becoming strong. What
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  Speaker 1: they want is a weak Germany, dismembered, if possible, a
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  Speaker 1: return to the military glories in conquests of France, the
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  Speaker 1: return of the Catholic Church and the return of the king.
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  Speaker 1: But being patriotic as all Frenchmen, they first want to
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  Speaker 1: obtain security by weakening Germany permanently. Their plan to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: this is to have the reparations kept at such a
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  Speaker 1: figure that will be unpayable, and then seize German territory,
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  Speaker 1: to be held only until the reparations are paid. The
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  Speaker 1: very sinister mystery is how they obtained the hold over
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  Speaker 1: Mousous Pincharre to force him to fall in with their
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  Speaker 1: plan and refuse to even discuss the German industrialists proposal
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  Speaker 1: to take over the pay of reparations if they were
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  Speaker 1: reduced to a reasonable figure. The German industrialists have money,
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  Speaker 1: have been making money ever since the Armistice, have profited
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  Speaker 1: by the fall of the mark to sell in pounds
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  Speaker 1: in dollars and pay their workers in useless marks, and
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  Speaker 1: have most of those pounds and dollars salted away. But
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  Speaker 1: they did not have enough money to pay the reparations
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  Speaker 1: as they were listed. No five European nations could, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to make some sort of a final settlement
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  Speaker 1: with the French. Now we must get back to little
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  Speaker 1: white whiskered Raymond point Carey, who has the smallest hands
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  Speaker 1: and feet of any man I have ever seen, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the chair at the Chamber of Deputies, while the fat,
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  Speaker 1: white faced Leon d'audet, who wrote the obscene novel and
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  Speaker 1: leads the Royalists and is marked for assassination, shakes his
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  Speaker 1: finger at him and says, France will do this, France
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  Speaker 1: will do that. To under stand what is going on,
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  Speaker 1: we must remember that French politics are unlike any other.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very intimate politics, a politics of scandal.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the duels of Clemenceau, the column at killing, the
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  Speaker 1: figure of the last president of the French Republic standing
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  Speaker 1: in a fountain at the bois and saying, oh, don't
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  Speaker 1: let them get me, don't let them get me. The
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  Speaker 1: prisoner of Doauders. A few days ago, Monsieur Andre Berton
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  Speaker 1: stood up in the Chamber of Deputies and said, Point Carrey,
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  Speaker 1: you are the prisoner of Leon d'auders. I demand to
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  Speaker 1: know by what blackmail he holds you. I do not
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  Speaker 1: understand why the government of Monsieur point Carey submits to
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  Speaker 1: the dictatorship of Leon d'auder the Royalist tute don Piers,
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  Speaker 1: all in one piece, as the Matine described it, Point
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  Speaker 1: Carrey jumped up and said, you are an abominable growl, Monsieur.
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  Speaker 1: Now you cannot call a man anything worse than a grosdon,
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  Speaker 1: although it means nothing particularly bad in English. The chamber
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  Speaker 1: rocked with shouts and catcalls. It looked like the free
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  Speaker 1: fight in the cigarette factory when Geraldine Farrar first begun
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  Speaker 1: to play Carmen. Finally, it quieted down sufficiently for Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: point Carrey, trembling in gray with rage, to say, the
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  Speaker 1: man who stands in the tribune dares to say that
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  Speaker 1: there exists against me or mine abominable dossiers which I
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  Speaker 1: fear to have made public. I deny it, Monsieur Berton said,
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  Speaker 1: very sweetly, I have not mentioned any dossiers. Dossiers is
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  Speaker 1: literally bundles of papers. It is the technical name for
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  Speaker 1: the French system of keeping all the documents on the
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  Speaker 1: case in a big Manilla folder. To have a dossier
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  Speaker 1: against you is to have all the official papers proving
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  Speaker 1: a charge held by someone with the powerty use them.
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  Speaker 1: The apology accepted. In the end, Monsieur Berton was asked
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  Speaker 1: to apologize. I apologize for any outrageous words I may
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  Speaker 1: have used. He did so very sweetly. It took this form.
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  Speaker 1: I only say, Monsieur le President, that Monsieur Leon Daudet
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  Speaker 1: exercises a sort of pressure on your politics. This apology
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  Speaker 1: was accepted. Point Carey goaded out of his depression to
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  Speaker 1: deny the existence of papers that had not been mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Is back in his forlornness. You cannot make charges in
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  Speaker 1: France unless you hold the papers in your hands, and
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  Speaker 1: those that do hold dossiers know how to use them.
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  Speaker 1: Last July, in a confidential conversation with a number of
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  Speaker 1: British and American newspaper correspondents, point Carey, discussing the rar situation,
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  Speaker 1: said occupation would be futile and absurd. Obviously Germany can
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  Speaker 1: only pay now in goods and labour. He was a
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  Speaker 1: more cheerful Pointcree in those days. Meantime, the French government
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  Speaker 1: has spent one hundred and sixty million francs official on
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  Speaker 1: the occupation and rher coal is costing France two hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars a ton. In the next article, mister Hemingway will
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  Speaker 1: deal with the French press, telling how the papers are
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  Speaker 1: paid to print only what the government wants. End of
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  Speaker 1: Section two, Section three of Dispatches from the Rurer by
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  Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Section three. Government pays for
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  Speaker 1: news in French papers mayor of Lyons dark Horse for Premier.
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  Speaker 1: The following is the third of a series of articles
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  Speaker 1: on the Franco German situation by Ernest M. Hemingway, staff
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  Speaker 1: correspondent of The Star, Paris, April tenth. What do the
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  Speaker 1: French people think about the roar and the whole German question?
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  Speaker 1: You will not find out by reading the French press.
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  Speaker 1: French newspapers sell their news columns just as they do
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  Speaker 1: their advertising space. It is quite open and understood. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it is not considered very chich
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  Speaker 1: to advertise in the small advertising section of a French daily.
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  Speaker 1: The news item is supposed to be the only real
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  Speaker 1: way of advertising. So the government pays the newspapers a
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of print government news. It is considered government advertising.
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  Speaker 1: In every big French daily like the Matin, Petit Parisian
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  Speaker 1: Ecco de Paris, Lantrans gan Letin, receives a regular amount
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  Speaker 1: and subsidy for printing government news. Thus, the government is
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper's biggest advertising client. The railroads are the next biggest,
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  Speaker 1: but that is all the news on anything the government
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  Speaker 1: is doing that readers of the paper get pays extra
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  Speaker 1: for special news. When the government has any special news,
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  Speaker 1: as it has at such a time as the occupation
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  Speaker 1: of the ruer, it pays the paper's extra. If any
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of these enormously circulated daily papers refuse to print the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: government news or criticize the government's standpoint, the government withdraws
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: their subsidy and the paper loses its biggest advertiser. Consequently,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the big Paris dailies are always for the government, any
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: government that happens to be in. When one of them
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: refuses to print the news furnished by the government and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: begins attacking its policy, you may be sure of one
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thing that it has not accepted the loss of its
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: subsidy without receiving the promise of a new one and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a substantial advance from some government that it is absolutely
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: sure will get into power shortly, and it has to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: be awfully sure it is coming off before it turns
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: down its greatest client. Consequently, when one of these papers,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: whose circulation mounts into millions, starts an attack on the government,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it is time for the politicians in power to get
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: out their overshoes and put up the storm windows. All
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: of these things are well known and accepted facts. The
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: government's attitude is that the newspapers are not in business
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: for their health, and that they must pay for the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: news they get like any other advertiser. The newspapers have
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: confirmed the government in this attitude. News written in Foreign
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Office Lettin is always spoken of as semi official. That
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: means that the first column on the first page is
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: written in the Foreign Office at the key d'Orsay. The
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: rest of the columns are at the dispose of the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: various governments of Europe. A sliding scale of rates handles them.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Unimportant governments can get space cheap, Big governments come high.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: All European governments have a special fund for newspaper publicity
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that does not have to be accounted for. This sometimes
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: leads to amusing incidents, as a year ago when the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: facts were published showing how the Tone was receiving subsidy
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: for running propaganda from two different Balkan governments who were
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: at loggerheads and printing the dispatches as their own special
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: correspondence on alternate days. No matter how idealistic European politics
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: may be, a trusting idealist is about as safe in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: their machinery as a blind man stumbling about in a sawmill.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: One of my best friends was in charge of getting
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: British propaganda printed in the Paris press at the close
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of the war. He is as sincere and idealistic a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: man as one could, but he certainly knows where the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: buzzsaws are located and how the furnace is stoked. Public
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: opinion backs occupation in spite of the fact that great
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: parish dailies, which are so widely quoted in the States
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: in Canada as organs of public opinion, say that the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: people of France are solidly backing the occupation of the ruler.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It is nevertheless true France always backs the government in
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: anything it does against a foreign foe. Once the government
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: has started, it is that really wonderful patriotism of the French.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: All Frenchmen are patriotic, and nearly all Frenchmen are politicians.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But the absolute backing of the government only lasts a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: certain length of time. Then, after his white heat has cooled,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the Frenchman looks the situation over the facts begin to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: circulate around. He discovers that the occupation is not a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: success and overthrows the government. The Frenchman feels he must
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: be absolutely loyal to his government, but that he can
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: overthrow it and get a new government to be loyal
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to at any time. Marshall Fauch, for example, was opposed
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to the rural occupation. He washed his hands of it absolutely,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: but once it was launched he did not come out
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: against it. He sent General wagand his chief of staff
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to oversee it and do the best he could, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: he does not wish to be associated with it in
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: any way. Similarly, Lucheur, the former Minister of the liberated
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Regions and one of the ablest men in France, opposed
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the occupation. Lucheur is a man who does not mince words.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: During the period when France was pouring out money for
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: reconstruction with seemingly no regard as to how it was
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: spent or for what Lucheur did all he could to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: control it. It was Lucheur who told the mayor of Raims, Monsieur,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you are asking exactly six times the cost of this reconstruction.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Laucheur against opposition. A few days ago, Monsieur Laucheur said
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to me in conversation. I was always opposed to the occupation.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It is impossible to get any money that way. But
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: now that they have gone in, now that the flag
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: of France is unfurled, we are all Frenchmen and we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: must loyally support the occupation. Monsieur Andre Tardieu, who headed
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the French mission of the United States during the war
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and his Clementeau's lieutenant, opposed the advance into the Ruar
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in his paper The Echo Nacionale up until the day
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it started. Now he is denouncing it is ill run,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: badly managed, wishy, washy, and not strong enough. Monsieur Tardieu,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: who looks like a bookmaker, foresees the failure of the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: present government with the failure of the occupation, but he
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: wants to be in a position to catch the reaction
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in the bud and say, give us a chance at it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Let us show that properly handled it can be a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: success for Morsu. Tardieu is a very astute politician, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that is very nearly his only chance of getting back
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: into power for some time. Edward Ariot, mayor of Lyons,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: a member of cabinet during the war and dark horse
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: candidate for next Premier of France, after supporting the occupation
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: in the same way that Luchour is doing, has now
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sponsored a resolution in the Lyon City Council protesting the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: occupation and demanding consideration of a financial and economic entent
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: with Germany. This demand of Ariol may be the first
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: puff of the wind that is bound to rise and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: blow the Poontcarey government out of power. Why are they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: opposed now? Why are these and many other intelligent Frenchmen
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: opposed to the occupation although they want to get every
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: cent possible from Germany, It is simply because of the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: way it is going. It is losing France money instead
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of making it. And from the start it was seen
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: by the long headed financiers that it would only cripple
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Germany's ability to pay further reparations, unite her as a country,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and reflame or hatred against France, and cost more money
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: than it would ever get out. Before the occupation, a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: train of twelve or more cars of coal or coke
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: left the Roar for France every twenty eight minutes. Now
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: there are only two trains a day. A train of
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: twelve cars now was split up into four trains to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: pad the figures and make the occupation look successful. When
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: there is a shipment of coal to be gotten out,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: four or five tanks, a battalion of infantry and fifty
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: workmen go and do the job. The soldiers are to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: prevent the inhabitants beating up the workmen. The official figures
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: on the amount of coal and coke that has been
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: exported from the Ruer and the money that has already
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: been given by the Chamber of Deputies for the first
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: months of the occupation show that the coal France was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: receiving on her reparations account is now costing her a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: little over two hundred dollars a ton, and she isn't
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: getting the coal the labor problem. At the start of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the occupation, certain correspondents wrote that it would be easy
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: for Franz to run the ruer profitably. All she would
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: have to do would be to bring in cheap labor
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Battalion or Polish labor is always cheap, and just get
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the stuff out. The other day I saw some of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this cheap labor locked in a car at the Gard
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: de Nord bound for Essen. They were a miserable lot
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of grimy, unfit looking men, the sort that could not
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: get work in France or anywhere else. They were all drunk,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: some shouting, some asleep on the floor of the car,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: some sick. They looked more like a Shanghai ship's crew
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: than anything else. And they were all going to be
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: paid double wages and work half time under military protection.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: No workmen will go into the roar for less than
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: double wages, and it has been almost impossible to get
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: workmen for that. The Poles and Italians will not touch
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the job. If you want any further information on the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: way it works out economically, ask any businessman or any
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: street railway head who has ever had to strike how
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: much money his corporation made during the time it was
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: employing strike breakers. Now that we have seen in a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: quick glance the forces that are at work in France
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: in this war, after the war, the situation of France
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and the views of her people, we can next look
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: at Germany. End of section three, Section four of Dispatches
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: from the Ruer by Ernest Hemingway. This Librevos recording is
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Atulsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Section
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: four rher commercial war, question of bankruptcy. German stop trains
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to hinder French. The following is the fourth of a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: series of articles on the Franco German situation by Ernest M. Hemingway,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: staff correspondent of The Star. Offenberg Baden, April twelfth. Offenburg
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: is the southern limit of the French occupation of Germany.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It is a clean neat little town, with the hills
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: of the Black Forest rising on one side and the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Rhine Plains stretching off on the other. The French seized
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Aufenberg in order to keep the Great International Railway Line open.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: This line runs straight north from Basel in Switzerland, through Freeburg, Offenburg, Karlsruhe, Frankfort, Cologne,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Dusseldorf to Holland. It was the main artery of communication
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and commerce in Germany. According to the French, their occupation
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: was to ensure the safe passage of coal trains on
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the main line between the Ruher and Italy. They feared
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the Germans might shunt the cars off at Aufenburg and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: ship them on a branch line up into the Black
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Forest and eventually back into the industrial district of what
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: French papers refer to as unoccupied Germany. Aufenburg without trains.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Germany denounced the occupation of Aufenburg, located in the Duchy
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of Baden in the far south of Germany, some hundreds
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of miles from the Ruher, as a breach of the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Treaty of Versailles. The French replied by expelling the burgomaster
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and some two hundred citizens who had signed the protest
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: from the town. The Germans then informed the French that
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: no more trains would run through Offenburg on the Great
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Main Rhineland Railway. For almost two months now not a
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: train has run through Offenburg. I stood on the bridge
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: over the right of way and looked at the four
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: wide gage tracks stretching the Switzerland in one direction and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Haulland in the other, red with rust. Trains stop three
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: miles each way from Offenburg north and south. Passengers get
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: out with their baggage, and if they are German, can
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: ride into Offenburg in a motor bus and get another
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: bus to take them the three miles the other side
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: of the town, where they can continue their journey. If
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: they are French, they are allowed to walk carrying their baggage.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: No coal has gone through. No coal has gone through
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: since the town was seized. Now the French faced the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: problem if they want to control the Rhine Railway of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: occupying every along the whole length of it, at an
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: expenditure of at least four hundred thousand men, and then
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: running the trains themselves. Otherwise, the Germans say they will
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: run trains to just outside the limit of the French
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: occupation and then stop them. It is their answer to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the strategists who put their fingers on the map and
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: said it is very simple. We will take this town
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: here and that will control this railway. It will only
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: take a few men, et cetera. The Franco German commercial
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: war has settled down to a question of which government
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: goes absolutely broke. First, all the Germans I have talked
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to say we could not do anything without our government.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: The government pays all the people who lose their jobs
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: through the occupation. It pays all those who are expelled
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: from the town. It pays the unemployed. How Germany is
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: using gold. The German government is now using up the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: gold to stabilize the mark that is ordinarily paid over
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: over to the Reparations Commission. It is using these marks
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: that it buys at the fixed price of twenty thousand,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: eight hundred to the dollar to fight the occupation, it
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: is already using a good portion of its hoarded gold, when,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: through the crippling of German industries and the exhaustion of
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the gold supply, the German government is no longer able
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to fight the occupation. By putting the government resources back
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: of the individuals who suffer by the occupation and making
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: good their loss with government money, the French will have
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: won the struggle of attrition, but Germany's gold will have
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: been used up before she quits, Her industry is ruined,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and she will be as profitable to France as a
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: squeezed lemon. On the day before I left Paris, Monsieur
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: point Kerrey asked the Chamber of Deputies for one hundred
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and ninety two million francs for the expenses of the
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: first four months occupation of the Ruher. Four months more
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: of that, and if the German government goes under, the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: French government will have won a commercial victory at the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: cost of biting off its own nose. Despite Germany's face.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: The unlucky brother from Offenburg to Ortenburg, where there was
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a train, I rode in a motor truck. The driver
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: was a short, blonde German with sunken cheeks and faded
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: blue eyes. He had been badly gasped at the Somme.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: We were riding along a white, dusty road through green
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: fields forested with hop poles, their tangled wires flopping. We
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: crossed a wide, swift, clearly pebbled stream with a flock
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of geese resting on a gravel island. A manure spreader
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: was busily clicking in the field in the distance where
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the blue schwarzwalled hills. My brother said, the driver guiding
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the big wheel with one arm half wrapped around it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: He had hard luck. So yaw, he never had no luck,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: my brother. What was he doing? He was signal man
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: on the railroad from Keel. The French put him out,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: all the signal men the day they came to Offenburg.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: They gave them all twenty four hours. But the government
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: pays him, doesn't it can't live on pay? Oh, yes,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: they pay him, but he can't live on it. What's
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the matter, Well, he's got seven kids. I pondered this.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: The driver went on in his drawling South German. They
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: pay him what he got, but the prices are up.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And where he was signal man, he had a little garden,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a nice garden. It makes a difference when you got
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a garden. What's he do now, I asked. He tried
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: working in the sawmill at Hauzac, but he can't get
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: work good inside. He's got the gas like me. Yaw,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: he's got no luck, my brother. We passed another lovely
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: clear stream that curved alongside the road. It had clear
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: gravel bottom ripples, and then deep holes along the bank.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Why there's no trout trout, I asked, naught any more,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the driver laughed. When we had the revolution, nobody knew
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: what to do. It was in the papers and it
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: was posted up. They sang in the streets and said
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: down with the Kaiser and Hoch the Republic, and there
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: was nothing more to do. But they had to do something. So,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: because it was always trouble to get fish and carton
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: fishing licenses, they went out to the stream with hand
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: grenades and killed the trout, and everybody had trout to eat.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Then the police came and made them stop and put
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: some in jail. And the revolution was over here Canada,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: said the driver. How long do you think the French
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: will stay in Offenburg? Three or four months? Maybe? Who knows?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: The driver looked ahead up the white road that we
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: were turning to dust behind us. There will be trouble, then,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: bad trouble. The work people will make trouble already the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: factories are shutting down all around here. It won't be
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: like the other revolution, I asked. The driver laughed, a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: hollow cheeked skin drum tight, hollow eyed laugh. No, they
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: won't throw any grenades at the trout. Then the thought
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: amused him very much. He laughed again. End of section
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: four Section five of Dispatches from the Ruher by Ernest Hemingway.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: This Librevoks recording is in the public domain. Read by Atulsharma, Winnipeg, Canada.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Section five. A brave Belgian lady shuts up German hater
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: guards and guides right for the Star. The following is
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the fifth of a series of articles on the Franco
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: German situation by Ernest M. Hemingway, staff correspondent of The Star, Frankfurt,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: on Maine, April twenty eighth, on the frontier between Baden
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and Wurtemberg. I found my first hater. It was all
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the fault of the Belgian lady who would insist on
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: speaking French in the roaring dark of going through a tunnel.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: The Belgian lady had shouted something at me. I didn't understand,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and she repeated, this time in French, please close the door.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: When we came out of the tunnel, the Belgian lady
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: beamed an enormous beam and began talking French. She talked
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: French rapidly and interesting for the next eight hours, in
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a country where to say one French word is to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: invite an attack. During those eight hours, we changed trains
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: six times. Sometimes we stood on a platform at a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: little junction like Schiltac, with a crowd of at least
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: six hundred people waiting for the train to come. There
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: would be four places vacant in the train. We always
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: got two of them. That was the Belgian lady. You
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: wait with the baggage, The Belgian lady would say, as
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the train came in sight down the track, I will
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: go in ahead of these bosh and get two places.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I will open the window when you throw the bags through,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: we will be comfortable bucking the line. That was exactly
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the way it happened. The train stopped, the Belgian lady
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: would go through these bosh like the widely advertised mister
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Lionel Connacher through the line of scrimmage. Four hundred perspiring
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and worthy Germans would be assaulting the door. A window
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: would fly open, the smiling face of the Belgian lady
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: would emerge triumphantly, shouting for sibassur the baggage quick some
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: way or other. I would get aboard a platform of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the train and in half an hour of apologetic threading
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: my way get through the sardine packed aisles of the
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: cars to where the Belgian lady was saving my plants.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Where have you been, monsieur? She would ask anxiously and
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: loudly in French. Everyone in the car would look at
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: us blackly. I would tell her I had been making
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: my way through the crowd. The Belgian lady would snort
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a terrific Belgian snort. Where would you be if you
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: did not have me to take care of you? I
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: ask you, where would you be? Never mind? I am
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: here and I will look after you. So, Guided and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: guarded by the brave Belgian lady, I crossed Baden, Wurtemberg
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and the Rhenish provinces in safety. As we crossed the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: frontier into Wurtemburg, a tall, distinguished looking man with gray
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: mustaches came into the car. An extraordinary moment. Good day,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: he said, and looked around keenly, then asked, politely but severely,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: is there an ouslander in this car? I thought my
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: time had come. There are at least four special visas
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that no one ever bothers to get in Germany, for
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the lack of which you can be thrown into jail
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and find anything up to a million marks. It is
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: much better to have these visas, but if you take
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the time to get them, you will spend eight out
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of every twenty four hours in police and passport control offices,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: and these officials will discover that you lack nine other
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: special and highly necessary visas that you have never heard of,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and throw you into the jug on general principles. The
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: gray mustache man took my passport and luckily opened it
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: to a page covered with Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, and
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: other incomprehensible official stampings. It was simply too much of
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a mess for him. He was too much of a
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: gentleman to go into that sort of thing. He folded
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the passport and handed it back with courtly gesture, first
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: carefully identifying the brave Belgian lady from the picture of
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: missus Hemingway in the back of the passport as my wife.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: The lady whose picture appears in the passport has bobbed
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: hair and has just finished a very successful season of
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: tennis on the rivi Era. I will not attempt to
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: describe her being prejudiced. The brave Belgian lady weighs perhaps
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: one hundred eighty pounds, has a face like a composite
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Rodin's group of the Burghers of Calais waiting to be hanged,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and sets his face off by a series of accordion
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: type double chins. This evidence is offered in the case
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of the people versus passports the hater in action. It
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: was just after the passage of the nightly Official that
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: the hater got into action. The hater sat directly opposite us.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: He had been listening to our conversation in French, and
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: some time back had begun to mutter. He was a
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: small man, the hater, with his head shaved, rosy cheeks,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: a big face culminating in the toothbrush mustache. The strain
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: of his rapidly increasing hate was telling on him. It
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: was obvious he could not hold out much longer, then
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: he burst. It was just like the time a bath
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: heater blew up on me at Genoa. I could not
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: catch the first eight hundred words. They came too fast.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: The hater's little blue eyes were just like a wild boar's.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: When my ears got tuned to his sending speed. The
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: conversation was going something like this, dirty French swine, rotten
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: French change hyenas, baby killers filed the attackers of defenseless
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: populations wore swine, swine hounds, et cetera. The brave Belgian
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: lady leaned forward into the zone of the hater's fire
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: and placed one of her twelve pound fists on the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: hater's knee. Squelched by the lady, The hair is not
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a Frenchman, she shouted at the hater in German. I
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: am not French. We talk French because it is the
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: language of civilized people. Why don't you learn to talk French.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: You can't even talk German. All you can talk is profanity.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Shut up. It seemed as though we ought to have
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: been mobbed, but nothing happened. The hater shut up. He
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: muttered for a time like a subsiding geyser, but he
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: gradually shut up and sat there hating the Brave Belgian lady.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Once more, he broke out as he got up to
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: leave the train at Carlsruhe he was always too fast
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: for me, and I didn't get it. Keskasseysa, I asked
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the Brave Belgian lady. She snorted her most devastating Belgian snort.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: He makes some charge against France, but it is not important.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: The b B Lady was traveling through Germany without a passport.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: She avowed that she didn't need a passport anywhere. She
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and her Marie were on the same passport, and he
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: was in Switzerland on business. If any one demanded the passport,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: she could always tell them that she was going to
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: meet her husband at Mannheim. My husband is a Jew,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: she said, but he is tray gent tie. One time
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: in Frankfort, they would not let us stop the night
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: at a hotel because he was a Jew. I showed them.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: We stayed there a week. Wanted tip on France. We
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: talked finance for a long time. The b B Lady
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: wanted me to tell her confidentially whether the dollar was
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: going to rise or fall in France. She said it
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: would be extremely important if her husband could know that,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and she wanted me to tell her so she could
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: tell her husband. I did my best. Luckily she hadn't
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: my address if I am wrong. Then we talked about
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the war. I asked the b Bee lady if she
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: had been in Belgium under the occupation. Yes, she said,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: how was it pretty bad? I asked? The b b
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: lady snorted her most powerful Belgian snort. I did not
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: suffer at all. I believe her. In fact, having traveled
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: with the brave Belgian lady, I am greatly surprised and
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: unable to understand how the Germans ever got into Belgium
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: at all. And of section five Section six of Dispatches
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: from the Ruer by Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada, Section
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: six Getting into Germany quite a job nowadays Famous Express
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: is no longer in service. The following is the sixth
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: of a series of articles on the Franco German situation
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: by Ernest M. Hemingway offenberg Baden, April thirtieth in Paris.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: They said it was very difficult to get into Germany.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: No tourists allowed. No newspaper men wanted. The German Consulate
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: will not visa a passport without a letter from a
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: consulate or Chamber of commerce in Germany, saying under seal
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: it is necessary for the traveler to come to Germany
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: for a definite business transaction. The day I called at
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the consulate, it had been instructed to amend the rules
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: to permit invalids to enter for the cure if they
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: produced a certificate from the doctor of the health resort
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: they were to visit, showing the nature of their ailment.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: We must preserve the utmost strictness, said the German consul,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: and reluctantly and suspiciously, after such consultation of files, gave
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: me a visa good for three weeks. How do we
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: know you will not write lies about Germany? He said,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: before he handed back the passport. Oh cheer up, I said.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: To get the visa, I had given him a letter
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: from our embassy, printed on stiff, crackling paper and bearing
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: an enormous red seal, which informed whom it may concern
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: that mister Hemingway the bearer, was well and favorably known
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to the embassy, and had been directed by his newspaper
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: the Toronto Star, to proceed to Germany and report on
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: the situation there. These letters do not take long to
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: get commit the embassy to nothing, and are as good
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: as diplomatic passports. A fight for a letter. The very
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: gloomy German consular attache was folding the letter and putting
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: it away. But you cannot have the letter. It must
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: be retained to show cause why the visa was given.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But I must have the letter. You cannot have the letter.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: A small gift was made and received the German slightly
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: less gloomy, but still not happy. But tell me why
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: was it you wanted the letter? So me ticket in pocket,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: passport in pocket, baggage packed, train not leaving till midnight.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Some articles mailed generally elated. It is a letter of
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: introduction from Sarah Bernhardt, whose funeral you perhaps witnessed to day,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to the Pope. I value it, German sadly and slightly confessed,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: But the Pope is not in Germany. Me mysteriously going
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: out the door, one can never tell. In the cold
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: gray street, washing milk, delivering shutters coming off the shop's
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: early morning, the midnight train from Paris arrived in Strasbourg.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: There was no train coming from Strasbourg into Germany. The
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Munich Express, the Orient Express, the Direct for Prague, they
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: had all gone. According to the porter, I might get
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: a tram across Strasbourg to the Rhine and then walk
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: across into Germany, and there at Keel get a military
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: train for Aufenburg. There would be a train for Kiel
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: sooner or later. No one quite knew. But the tram
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: was much better in Strasbourg. On the front platform of
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the street car, with a little ticket window opening into
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: the car, through which the conductor accepted a frock for
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: myself and two bags. We clanged the long through the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: winding streets of Strasburg in the early morning. There were sharp,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: peaked plastered houses criss crossed with great wooden beams. The
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: flier wound and re wound through the town, and each
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: time we crossed it there were fishermen on the banks.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: There was the wide modern street with modern German shops
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: with big glass show windows and new French names over
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: their doors. Butchers were on shuttering their shops and with
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: assistants hanging the big carcasses of beefs and horses outside
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: the doors. A long stream of carts were coming into
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: market from the country. Streets were being flushed and washed.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I caught a glimpse down a side street at the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Great red Stone Cathedral. There was a sign in French
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and another in German forbidding anyone to talk to the motorman,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and the motorman chatted in French and German to his
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: friends who got on the car as he swung his
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: levers and checked or speeded our progress along the narrow
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: streets and out of the town. In the stretch of
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: country that lies between Strasbourg and the Rhine, the tram
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: track runs along a canal, and the big blunt nosed
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: birge with lou Titagna painted on its stern, was being
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: dragged smoothly along by two horses ridden by the bergeman's
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: two children, while breakfast smoke came out of the galley
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: chimney and the bergeman leaned against the sweep. It was
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: a nice morning, money and grunts. At the ugly iron
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: bridge that runs across the Rhine into Germany, the tram stopped.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: We all piled out. Were last July. At every train
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: there had formed a line like the queue outside an
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: arena hockey match. There were only four of us. A
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: gendarme looked at the passports. He did not even open mine.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: A dozen or so French gendarme were loafing about. One
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: of these came up to me as I started to
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: carry my bags across the long bridge over the yellow flooded,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: ugly swirling rhine, and asked how much money have you?
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I told him one hundred and twenty five dollars American
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: and in the neighborhood of one hundred francs. Let me
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: see your pocket book. He looked in it, grunted, and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: handed it back. The twenty five five dollar bills I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: had obtained in Paris for mark buying made an impressive roll.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: No gold money may no mesur, he grunted again, and
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I walked with the two bags across the long iron bridge,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: passed the barbed wire entanglement with its two French sentries
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: and their blue tin hats and their long needle bayonets
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: into Germany. Not very cheerful. Germany did not look very cheerful.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: A herd of beef cattle were being loaded into a
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: box car on the track that ran down to the bridge.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: They were entering reluctantly with much tail twisting and whacking
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of their legs. A long wooden custom shed with two entrances,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: one marked nach Frankreich and one nach Deutschland stood next
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: to the track. A German soldier was sitting on an
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: empty gasoline tin smoking a cigarette. A woman in an
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: enormous black hat with plumes and an appalling collection of hat, boxes,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: parcels and bags was stalled opposite the cattle loading process.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I carried three of the bundles for her into the
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: shed marked towards Germany. You are going to Munich, two,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: she asked, powdering her nose. No, only Offenburg. Oh what
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: a pity. There is no place like Munich. You have
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: never been there. No, not yet. Let me tell you
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: do not go anywhere else. Anywhere else in Germany is
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: a waste of time. There is only Munich. A gray
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: headed German customs inspector asked me where I was going,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: whether I had anything dutiable and wave my passport away.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: You go down the road to the regular station, a
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: deserted station. The Regular station had been the important customs
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: junction on the direct line between Paris and Munich. It
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: was deserted. All the ticket windows closed, everything covered with dust.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I wandered through to the track and found four French
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: soldiers of the one hundred and seventieth Infantry Regiment with
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: full kit and fixed bayonets. One of them told me
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: there would be a train at a Life fifteen for Offenburg,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: a military tram. It was about half an hour to Offenburg,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: but this droll train would get there about two o'clock.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: He grinned. Monsieur was from Paris. What did the mensieur
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: think about the match? Cricke Johnny Kilbain. Ah, he had
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: thought very much the same. He had always had the
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: idea that he was no fool, this Kilbain the military service.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: While it was all the same, it made no difference
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: where one did it. In two months now he would
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: be through. It was a shame he was not free.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Perhaps we could have a talk together. Monsieur had seen
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: the Kilbain box. The new wine was not bad at
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the buffet, but after all he was on guard. The
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: buffet is straight down the corridor. If Monsieur leaves the baggageer,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: it will be all right. In the buffet was a
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: sad looking waiter in a dirty shirt and soup and
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: beer stained evening clothes, a long bar and two forty
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: year old French second lieutenant sitting at a table in
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the corner. I bowed as I entered, and they both saluted. No,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: the waiter said, there is no milk. You can have
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: black coffee, but it is Ersat's coffee. The beer is good.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: French refused passports. The waiter sat down at the table. No,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: there is no one here now, he said. All the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: people you say you saw in July cannot come now.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: The French will not give them passports to come into Germany.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: All the people that came over here to eat don't
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: come now, I asked nobody. The merchants and restaurant keepers
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: in Strasburg got angry and went to the police because
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: everybody was coming over here to buy and eat so
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: much cheaper, and now nobody in Strasbourg can get passports
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: to come here. How about all the Germans who worked
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: in Strasburg. Koh was a suburb of Strasbourg before or
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: the peace treaty, and all their interests and industries were
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: the same. That is all finished. Now no Germans can
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: get passports to go across the river. They could work
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: cheaper than the French, so that is what happened to them.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: All our factories are shut down. No coal, no trains.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: This was one of the biggest and busiest stations in Germany.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Now nicks no trains except the military trains, and they
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: run when they pleased for Pualu came in and stood
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: up at the bar. The waiter greeted them cheerfully in French.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: He poured out their new wine, cloudy and golden in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: their glasses, and came back and sat down. French good people.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: How did they get along with the French here in town?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: No trouble. They are good people, just like us. Some
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: of them are nasty sometimes, but they are good people.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Nobody hates except profiteers. They had something to lose. We
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: haven't had any fun since nineteen eleven. If you make
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: any money, it gets no good and there is only
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: to spend it. That is what we do. Some day
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: it will be over. I don't know how. Last year
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I had enough money saved up to buy a guest
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: house in Herneburg. Now that money would buy four bottles
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: of champagne. I looked up at the wall where the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: prices were beer three hundred and fifty marks a glass
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: red wine, five hundred marks, a glass sandwich nine hundred marks,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: lunch thirty five hundred marks, champagne thirty eight thousand marks.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I remembered that last July first I stayed at a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: de Luxe hotel with Missus Hemingway for six hundred marks
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: a day. Shore. The waiter went on, I read the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: French papers. Germany debases are money to cheat the Allies.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: But what do I get out of it? There was
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: a shrill heap of a whistle outside. I paid in,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: shook hands with the waiter, saluted the two forty year
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: old second lieutenants who were now playing checkers at their table,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: and went out to take the military train to Aufenburg.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: End of section six Section seven of Dispatches from the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: RAR by Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: public domain. Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Section seven quite
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: easy to spend a million if in Marx, different classes
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: tell how they live. The following is the seventh of
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: a series of articles on the Franco German situation by
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Ernest M. Hemingway meinz Kastel, April twenty second, one hundred
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars in Germany to day by two
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: million and a half marks. A year ago. It would
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: have taken a motor lorry to haul this amount of money.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Twenty thousand marks, then made into packets of ten of
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: the thick, heavy hundred mark notes, filled your overcoat pockets
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: and part of a suit case. Now the two million
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: and half fit's easily into your pocket book is twenty
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: five slim crisp one hundred thousand marked bills. When I
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: was a small boy, I remember being very curious about millionaires,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: and being finally told to shut up that there was
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: no such thing as a million dollars, there wouldn't be
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: a room big enough to hold it, and that even
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: if there was a person counting them a dollar at
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: a time, would die before he finished. All of that
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I accepted as final. The difficulty of spending a million
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: dollars was further brought home to me by seeing a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: play in which a certain brewster, if he spent a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: million dollars foolishly, was to receive six million from the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: will of some splendid uncle or other brewster, as I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: recall it, after insurmountable difficulties, finally conceived the idea of
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: falling in love, at which the million disappeared almost at once,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: only for poor Brewster to discover that his uncle was
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: quite penniless, having died at the found league's home or
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: something of that sort. Whereupon Brewster, realizing it was all
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: for the best, went to work and eventually became president
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: of the local Chamber of Commerce. Easy to spend million.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Such bulwarks of my early education have been chattered by
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that in ten days in Germany, for living
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: expenses alone, I have spent, with practically no effort at all,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: something over a million marks. During this time I have
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: only once stopped at a Delexe hotel after a week
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: and fourth class railway coaches village inns, country and small
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: town guesthoffs. Finishing a seven hour ride standing up in
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: the pack corridor of a second class railway car, I
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  Speaker 1: decided that I would investigate how the profiteers lived on
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  Speaker 1: The great glass door of the frankfurter Hoff was a
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  Speaker 1: black lettered sign French and Belgians not admitted. At the desk,
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  Speaker 1: the clerk told me a single room would be fifty
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  Speaker 1: one thousand marks, with taxes, of course added. In the
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  Speaker 1: Oriental lobby out of big chairs. I could see heavy
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Jewish faces looking at me through the cigar smoke. I
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: registered us from Paris. We don't enforce that anti French rule,
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  Speaker 1: of course, said the clerk very pleasantly. Up in the room,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: there was a list of the taxes. First there was
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: a ten percent town tax, then twenty percent for service,
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  Speaker 1: then a charge of eight thousand marks for heating. Then
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: an announcement that the visitors who did not eat breakfast
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: in the hotel would be charged six thousand marks extra.
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  Speaker 1: There were some other charges. I stayed that night and
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  Speaker 1: half the next day. The bill was one hundred forty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand marks. In a little railway junction in Baden,
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  Speaker 1: a girl porter put my two very heavy bags onto
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  Speaker 1: the train. I wanted to help her with them. She
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: laughed at me. She has a tanned face, smooth blonde hair,
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  Speaker 1: and shoulders like an ox. How much I asked her
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  Speaker 1: fifty marks? She said, demands a real tip. At Mannheim,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: a porter carried my bags from one track to another
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: in the station. When I asked him how much, he
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: demanded a thousand marks. The last porter I had seen
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: had been the girl in Baden, so I protested a
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: bottle of beer costs fifteen hundred marks. Here, he replied,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: a glass of snaps twelve hundred. That is the way
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  Speaker 1: the prices fluctuate all over Germany. Pens on whether the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: prices went up to the top when the mark had
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: its terrific fall last winter to around seventy thousand to
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: the dollar. If the prices went up, they never come
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: down in the big cities, of course, they went up.
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  Speaker 1: A full meal in the country costs two thousand marks
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: on the train. A ham sandwich costs three thousand marks.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Last week, investigating the actual living conditions, I talked to,
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  Speaker 1: among others, a small factory owner, several workmen, a hotel keeper,
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  Speaker 1: and a high school professor. The factory owner said, we
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: have enough coal and coke for a few weeks longer,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: but are short on all raw materials. We cannot pay
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: the prices they ask. Now we sold exporterers. They got
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the dollar prices we didn't. We can buy coal from Czechoslovakia,
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  Speaker 1: where they have German mines they got under the peace treaty.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: But they want pay and check money, which is at power,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: and we can't afford to pay. We are starting to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: lay off workmen and as they have nothing saved. There
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: is libel to be trouble. How a workman fares. A
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: workman said, I cannot keep my family on the money
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  Speaker 1: that I am making. Now. I have mortgaged my house
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: to the bank, and the bank charges me ten percent
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: interest on the loan. You see workmen who have plenty
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: of money to spend. But they are the young men
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  Speaker 1: who are living at home. They get their board and
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: room free, and their laundry. Maybe they pay a little
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  Speaker 1: something on their board. They are the men you see
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: around the wine and beerstoubs. Maybe their father has some
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: property in the country, a farm, then they are all right.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: All the farmers have money. The hotel keeper said, all
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: summer the hotel was full. We had a good season.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: I worked all summer in the high season, from six
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning until mid night. Every room was crowded.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: We had people sleeping in the billiard rooms on cots.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: It was the best year we ever had. In October
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: the mark started to fail, and in December all the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: money we had taken in all summer was not enough
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: to buy our preserves and jelly for next season. I
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: have a little capital in Switzerland. Otherwise we would have
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: had to close. Every other summer hotel in this town
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: is closed for good. The proprietor of the big hotel
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: on the hill there committed suicide last week. A professor's salary,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the high school professor said, I get two hundred thousand
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: marks a month. That sounds like a good salary, but
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: there is no way I can increase it. One egg
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: costs four thousand marks. A shirt costs eighty five thousand marks.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: We are living now, our family of four, on two
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: meals a day. We are very lucky to have that.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I owe the bank money. People here in town cannot
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: change their marks into dollars in Swiss franc so as
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: to have them when the mark falls again, as it
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: will as soon as they settle this rurer affair. The
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: banks will not give out any dollars or Swiss or
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Dutch money. They hang on to all they can get.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: The people can't do anything. The merchants have no confidence
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: in the money and will not bring their prices down.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: The wealthy people are the farmers who got the high
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: prices for their crops which were marketed just after the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: mark fell last fall, and the big manufacturers. The big
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: manufacturers sell abroad for foreign money and pay their labor
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: in marks. And the banks the banks are always wealthy.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: The banks are like the government. They get good money
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: for bad and hang on to the good money. The
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: school teacher was a tall, thin man with thin, nervous hands.
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  Speaker 1: For pleasure, he played the flute. I had heard him
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: playing as I came to his door. His two children
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: did not look undernourished, but he and his frayed looking
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: wife did. Can't trust government, but how will it all
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: come out? I asked him. We can only trust in God,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: he said. Then he smiled. We used to trust in
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: God and the government we Germans. Now I no longer
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: trust the government. I heard you playing very beautifully on
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the flute when I came to the door, I said,
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  Speaker 1: rising to go. You know the flute. You like the flute,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I will play for you. It would not be asking
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: too much. So we sat in the dusk and the
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: ugly little parlor, and the schoolmaster played very beautifully on
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the flute. Outside people were going by in the main
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: street of the town. The children came in silently and
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: sat down. After a time, the schoolmaster stopped and stood
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: up very embarrassedly. It is a very nice instrument, the flute,
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  Speaker 1: he said, end of section seven Section eight of Dispatches
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  Speaker 1: from the Rarer by Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: in the public domain, read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada. Section
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: eight Amateur starvers keep out of view in Germany. German
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: police salute British rigidly. The following is the eighth of
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: a series of articles by Ernest M. Hemingway, staff correspondent
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: of The Star, on the Franco German situation, Cologne, April
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Traveling on fast trains, stopping at the hotel
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: selected for him by the messr's cook, usually speaking no
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: language but his own, the tourist sees no suffering in Europe.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: If he comes to German, even traveling quite extensively, he
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: will see no suffering. There are no beggars, no horrible
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: examples on view, no visible famine sufferers, nor hungry children
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: that besiege railway stations. The tourists leave Germany wondering what
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: all this starving business is about. The country looks prosperous.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, in Naples, he has seen crowds of ragged,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: filthy beggars, sor eyed children, a hungry looking horde. Tourists
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: see the professional beggars, but they do not see the
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: amateur starvers. For every ten professional beggars in Italy, there
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: are a hundred amateur starvers in Germany. An amateur starver
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: does not starve in public. On the contrary, no one
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: knows the amateur is starving until they find him. They
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: usually find him in bed. Every hungry person does not
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: walk the streets after a certain length of time. It
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: sharpens that feeling that is dulled by bed. In writing
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: of amateur starvers, no reference is meant to the inhabitants
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: of breadlines, soup kitchens, or rescue missions. They have violated
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: their strictly amateur standing amateur starvers. A few case histories
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: of amateur starvers are appended. Number one Fraub is the
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: widow of the owner of an apothecary shop who died
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: before the war. She has a yearly income of twenty
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: six thousand, four hundred marks. The interest on mortgages before
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: the war. This yielded one hundred dollars a week. Her
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: twenty nine year old daughter is suffering from lung trouble
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: and cannot work. Her twenty one year old son passed
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: the final examination at the grammar school, but cannot go
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: to the university and is earning his living as a miner.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Another thirteen year old is in school. The family was
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: formerly very well to do. Today their income for one
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: year year is the minimum for the existence of a
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: family of four persons for a period of two weeks.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Number two the married couple p sixty four years old,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: who have been blind for the last ten years, received
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: from their capital which they earned by hard work, an
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: income of thirty four hundred marks a year. They were
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: formerly able to live comfortably on this income. Today it
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: represents half a week's wages of an unskilled laborer. Number
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: three Frau b, widow of an architect, is obliged to
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: live with her two children of nine and six years
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: on a yearly income of twenty four hundred marks. This
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: represents less than two days earnings of a laborer. Number
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: four the married couple k receive five hundred marks a
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: month from the rent of their house. The husband, formerly
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: a farmer, is suffering from heart trouble. A short time ago,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: he was in bed a number of weeks as a
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: result of poisoning. For six months. The wife has been
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: almost completely paralyzed. The medicines necessary to their illness cost
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: more than their income. In normal times, the income derived
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: from the rent would have afforded these people a comfortable existence.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Number five the widow h forty eight years old, has
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: four children, three of whom still attends school. She has
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: a capital of one hundred thousand marks. This gives her
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand marks yearly. On this the family can live
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: for one week. Not exceptional cases. These cases are not
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: exceptional or isolated. They are typical of the situation of
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: these people in the middle class in Germany who are
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: dependent on a fixed income from savings. Neither are they
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: German propaganda cases. All are taken from an appeal for
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: the starving of Cologne, signed by mister J. I. Pigot,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Commissioner the inter Allied Rhineland High Commission and mister D W. P.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: Thurston CMC h M, Consul General Cologne. Cologne itself looks prosperous.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: The shop windows are brilliant, streets are clean. British officers
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: and men move smartly along through the crowds. The green
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: uniform German police salute the British officers rigidly in the evening,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: the brilliant red or the dark blue of the officer's
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: formal mess kit that is compulsory for those officers who
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: live in Cologne colors the drab civilian crowds outside in
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the street, German children dance on the pavement to music
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: that comes from the windows of the ballroom of the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Officers Club. Coming down the broad flood of the Rhine
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: on a freight boat from Wisbaden through the gloomy brown
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Head Hills with their ruined castles that look exactly like
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: the castles and goldfish bowls. In fourteen hours on the river,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: we only passed fifteen loaded coal barges, all were flying
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: the French flag. Last September in an express passenger boat,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: we passed an endless succession of them moving up the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: river toward the canal mouth that would take them by
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: a network of quiet waterways to feed the lorin furnaces.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Then France was getting the hundreds of barges of coal
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: as part of German reparation payment. Now the fifteen barges
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: we passed were part of the thin stream of coal
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: that trickles out of the Ruar through the mazes of
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: arrested industry and military occupation and of section eight Section
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: nine of Dispatches from the Rar by Ernie Hemingway. This
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: librevox recording is in the public domain. Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Section nine hate in occupied zone a real concrete thing
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: rher workmen lack patriotic spirit. The following is the ninth
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: of a series of articles on the Franco German situation
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: by Ernest M. Hemingway, staff correspondent of The Star, Dusseldorf,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: April thirtieth. You feel the hate in the roar as
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: an actual concrete thing. It is as definite as the unswept,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: cinder covered sidewalks of Dusseldorf or the long rows of
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: grimy brick cottages, each one exactly like the next, where
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: the workers of Essen live. It is not only the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: French that the Germans hate. They look away when they
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: pass the French sentries in front of the post office,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: the town hall and the Hotel Kaiserhoff in Essen, and
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: look straight at head when they passed Paulieus in the street.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: But when the nationalists and workers meet, they look each
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: other in the face, or look at each other's clothes,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: with a hatred as cold and final as the towering
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: slag heaps back of Frau Bertha Krup's foundries. Most of
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the workers of the rural district are Communists. The Rarer
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: has always been the reddest part of Germany. It was
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: so red, in fact, that before the war, troops were
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: never garrisoned here, both because the government did not trust
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: the temper of the population and feared the troops would
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: become contaminated with the communist atmosphere. Consequently, when the French
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: moved in, they had no barracks to occupy and had
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: a very difficult time billeting a revival peters out. At
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: the start of the occupation, all of the rar united
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: solidly to back the government against the French. The night
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: of the demonstration, when Tissen came home from his trial
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: at Mayan, a German newspaper man told me he identified
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: over a hundred men in the mob, singing patriotic songs
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: and shouting for the government, who had been officers and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: noncoms in the Red Army during the Roar rebellion. It
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: was a great revival of national feeling that molded the
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: country into a hole in its opposition to France. It
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: was most uplifting. An old German women told me you
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: should have been here. Never have I been so uplifted
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: since the great days of the victories. Oh, they sang ach,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: it was beautiful. That is finished. Now the leaders of
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: the workers are saying that the government has no policy
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: except passive resistance, and they are sick of passive resistance.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Their newspapers are demanding that the German government start negotiations
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: with the French. The French have seized millions of marks
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: of unemployment doles, and as soon as the unemployment pay
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't come in, the workers began grumbling. It was the
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: beginning to look as though workers would not hold out
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: in the passive resistance, and the industrialists were extremely anxious
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: to provoke an incident between the workers and the troops,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: something to stir up a little trouble and revive the
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: old patriotic fervor. They ordered sirens blown to summon workers
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: for a passive resistance demonstration whenever French troops appear for
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: requisitionings Easter bloodshed. On the Saturday before the Easter, the
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: incident occurred. It cost lives of thirteen workmen. It would
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: not have happened, perhaps if the young officer in charge
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: of the platoon that came to requisition motor trucks had
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: not been nervous. But it did happen. I have heard
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: at least fifteen different accounts of what actually happened. At
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: least twelve of them sounded like lies. The crowd was
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: very thick and pressed tight around the soldiers. It was
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: in a big courtyard. Those that were in the front
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: rank of the crowd were killed or wounded. You are
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: not allowed to talk to the wounded. The troops are
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: not giving interviews. In fact, they were sent a very
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: long way away, very soon after the last ambulance load
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: of wounded had gone hearsay evidence is worthless, and there
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: are plenty of wild stories. Two things stand out. The
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: French had no reason to make any bloodshed and wanted none.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, they had every reason to avoid any
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: sort of conflict, as they were making every effort to
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: win over the workers from their employers. The industrialists, on
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: the other hand, had been provoking incidents and advising the
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: men to resist. Twenty different workmen swore to me that
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: there were nationalist agitators. Former German Green police in the crowd.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: The workmen say these men egged on the workers and
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: told them they could swarm over the French, disarm them
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: and kick them out of the courtyard. Disputes overshooting. All
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the workmen said the crowd ran at the first volley,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: which was fired over their heads. They had all served
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: in the army and had no desire to attack armed
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: troops unarmed once they saw they meant business and would
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: really shoot. It is there that the question arises whether
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: or not the lieutenant proceeded to fire unnecessarily. I do
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: not know. All the men I have talked to swear
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: they were running after the first volley and did not
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: see anything. After the first volley the troops fired independently.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: The funeral at Essen was delayed the last time because
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: the French and German doctors could not agree on the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: nature of the bullet wounds. The Germans claimed eleven of
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: the workmen were shot in the back. The French surgeon
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: claims that four were shot in the front, five bullets
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: entered from the side, and two in the back. I
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: do not know the claims than the two men who died.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: Since the argument started. At present, the rural workmen are
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: feeling decidedly unpatriotic. They believe that sooner or later negotiations
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  Speaker 1: will start, their steadily dwindling unemployment pay will stop, the
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  Speaker 1: mark will plunge down again, and that they will not
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  Speaker 1: be able to work full time due to various sabotages
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  Speaker 1: in the general disorganization. None of them have any illusions
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  Speaker 1: that the government will be able to pay them unemployment
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  Speaker 1: pay indefinitely, and they are demanding that the government starts something.
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  Speaker 1: Keep troops from view. The French seem to run the
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  Speaker 1: administration of the occupation admirably. The troops are kept out
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  Speaker 1: of sight as much as possible, and there is a
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  Speaker 1: minimum of interference with Germans going through from unoccupied to
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  Speaker 1: occupied Germany. They are all required to have read card passes,
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  Speaker 1: but the examination of these passes is purely perfunctory. Calm
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  Speaker 1: sees the red card, says Bon and the line of
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  Speaker 1: Germans passes through the barrier. They ran the military ends smoothly,
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  Speaker 1: but are only able to move six trains of the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three from Essen each day. In
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  Speaker 1: three months of occupation, France has obtained the same amount
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  Speaker 1: of coals she had been getting each week from Germany
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. Before the rar seizure, Monsieur Laucheur, the millionaire
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  Speaker 1: ex minister of the devastated regions under Briand, went to
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  Speaker 1: London and felt out public opinion on his own hook.
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  Speaker 1: Although he told point Carey he was going and reported
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  Speaker 1: to him on his return. Pointquirey was reported furious at
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  Speaker 1: Lachore's trip, which he regarded as a first step in
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  Speaker 1: a Lashore drive for the premiership. When the Chamber of
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  Speaker 1: Deputies against sits in May, Lauchour suffers in France from
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  Speaker 1: being called the French Winston Churchill And has a record
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  Speaker 1: for brilliant performance and brilliant failure. His very sound credentials
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: for the premiership will be that he has always opposed
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  Speaker 1: the ruher venture Brion's ambition. Aristide Briand is now working
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  Speaker 1: on a speech that he hopes will return him to power.
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  Speaker 1: He is planning to attack Point Terrey by stating the
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  Speaker 1: number of millions brionn got out of the Germans in
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  Speaker 1: reparations while he was Prime Minister, and compare them with
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: the money Point Carey has lost since he came into office.
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  Speaker 1: The Cayllo Liberal camp have started a new paper in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Leon Daudet, the Royalist says, the first thing he will
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  Speaker 1: ask the Chamber when it reopens is why Monsieur Lechour
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  Speaker 1: was permitted to go to England as an alleged representative
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  Speaker 1: of the government against the wishes of the government, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Andre Tardieu has announced an attack on the rural policy
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  Speaker 1: as it has been carried out. Things are beginning to boil.
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  Speaker 1: The end of the Ruher venture looks very near. It
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: has weakened Germany and so has pleased Monster Daudet and
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  Speaker 1: Monster Ponkerrey. It has stirred up new hates and revived
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  Speaker 1: old hates. It has caused many people to suffer, but
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  Speaker 1: has its strength in France. End of section nine, Section
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  Speaker 1: ten of Dispatches from the Ruer by Ernest Hemingway. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Section ten French Speed with movies on the Job. The
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  Speaker 1: following is the tenth of a series of articles by
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  Speaker 1: Ernest M. Hemingway, staff correspondent of The Star, on the
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  Speaker 1: Franco German situation. Dusseldorf hiking along the road that runs
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  Speaker 1: through the dreary brick outskirts of Dusseldorf out into the
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  Speaker 1: pleasant open country that rolls in green swells patched with timber.
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  Speaker 1: Between the smoky towns of the Roar, you pass slow
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  Speaker 1: moving French ammunition carts, the horses led by short, blue uniformed,
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  Speaker 1: quiet faced Chinamen, their tin hats on the back of
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  Speaker 1: their heads, their carbines slung over their head. French cavalry
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  Speaker 1: patrols ride by. Two broad faced with Phalian iron puddlers,
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  Speaker 1: who were sitting under a tree and drawing their unemployment pay,
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  Speaker 1: watched the cavalry out of sight around a bend in
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  Speaker 1: the road. I borrowed a match from one of the
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  Speaker 1: iron puddlers. They are Westphalians, hard headed, hard muscled, uncivil
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  Speaker 1: and friendly. They want to go snipe shooting. The snipe
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  Speaker 1: have just come with the spring, but they haven't any shotguns.
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  Speaker 1: They laugh at the little Indo Chinamen with their ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: big blue helmets on the back of their heads, and
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  Speaker 1: they applaud one little Anamite who has gotten way behind
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  Speaker 1: the column and is trotting along the catch up, holding
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  Speaker 1: his horse's bridle with sweat running down his face. His
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  Speaker 1: helmet joggling down over his eyes. The little Anamite smiles happily. Then,
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  Speaker 1: at forty miles an hour, in a sucking swirl of dust,
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  Speaker 1: a French staff car goes by. Beside the hunch down
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  Speaker 1: driver is a French officer. In the rear, I get
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse of two civilians holding their hats on in
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  Speaker 1: the wind, and another French officer. It is one of
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  Speaker 1: the personally conducted tours of the Roar. The two civilians
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  Speaker 1: are American ministers who have come to investigate the Roar occupation.
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  Speaker 1: The French are showing them around. Personally conducted tours are
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  Speaker 1: a great feature of the Roar. The two gentlemen in
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  Speaker 1: the car are typical of the way it is done.
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  Speaker 1: They obtained a letter of introduction to General de Gautet
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  Speaker 1: from Paris. They wanted to make a full and impartial
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  Speaker 1: investigation of the Rarer occupation in order that they might
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  Speaker 1: return to America and give their churches the facts. It
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  Speaker 1: is true they hadn't thought of this when they came
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  Speaker 1: to Europe, but the Roar was the big headline news,
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  Speaker 1: and to be an authority on Europe when you returned
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  Speaker 1: to America, you must have seen the Roar. If the
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  Speaker 1: Genoa conference had been on, they would have gone to Genoa,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: and so on. They are at Dusseldorf, speaking of very
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: little French and no German. The French were delightful to them.
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  Speaker 1: A staff car and two officers were placed at their disposal,
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  Speaker 1: and they were told they could go anywhere they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know much where they wanted to go, so
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  Speaker 1: the French took them at forty miles an hour. They
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  Speaker 1: did the rar in an afternoon. They saw towering mountains
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: of coke. They saw great factories. They ascended the water
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  Speaker 1: tower and looked out over the valley. There pointed a
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  Speaker 1: French officer, the steel works of Steins, there are those
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: of Tissen. Beyond you see the works of Krupp. That
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: night one of them said to me, we've seen it all,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to tell you right now that France
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely in the right. I tell you I never
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  Speaker 1: saw anything like it in my life before. I never
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: saw such mines and factories in all my life. France
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  Speaker 1: did absolutely and unequivocally write to seize them. And let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you, this thing is running like clockwork. Next,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: in point of amusement to the personally conducted tours in
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  Speaker 1: the Ruhr are the rival French and German press bureaus
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  Speaker 1: at the Hotel Kaiserhoff in Essen. The French press officer
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  Speaker 1: is a large, blond man who looks like the living
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  Speaker 1: picture of the conventional caricature of the German. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, the German press officer, who arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: Kaiserhoff to give his thirty minutes of propaganda immediately after
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: the French press officer had functioned, looked exactly like the
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  Speaker 1: caricatured frenchman. Small, dark, concentrated, looking both sides, freely distorted
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  Speaker 1: facts and furnished false news. Sir Percival Phillips of the
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: Daily Mail, after he had been badly let down by
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: a piece of French news he used which proved false
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: the next day, said he would use no more of
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  Speaker 1: either press bureau's news without labeling it as from the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: press bureau. My paper is pro French, he said, but
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  Speaker 1: it might not always be my paper, and I have
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: a reputation as a journalist to sustain. The French have
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  Speaker 1: a genius for love, war making, wine farming, painting, writing,
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  Speaker 1: and cooking. None of these accomplishments is particularly applicable to
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  Speaker 1: the roar except making war. The military end of the
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: occupation has been carried out admirably. But to run this
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  Speaker 1: industrial heart of Germany, which has been pinched out and
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  Speaker 1: cut off by the military, requires business genius. Business genius
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  Speaker 1: is required to run it at all. At the customs cordon,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: which was designed to separate occupied from unoccupied Germany and
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: yeeld tremendous revenues on taxes and duties, you see this spectacle,
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  Speaker 1: A long column of trucks on the occupied side of
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: the imaginary line, chained together, piled high with packages and
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: goods covered with tarpaulins, some of which had blown off.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: They have been standing there for weeks. The five Duannier
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: or customs men, have been too busy intercepting all goods
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  Speaker 1: to have time to search those they have held up.
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  Speaker 1: At the railroad siding there is a huge warehouse jammed
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: to the rafters with held up merchandise. A fat movie
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  Speaker 1: operator comes up in a motor car, taking propaganda pictures
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: to show the peace people to France how well the
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: occupation is going. He gets out of the car, sets
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  Speaker 1: up his camera and shouts instructions to the Duignier, who
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: have been sitting against the side of the shed smoking
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: their pipes. They stir into action. The movie man shoots
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  Speaker 1: a long line of trucks. Then the five duaier each
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  Speaker 1: climb up the side of a truck and begin to
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  Speaker 1: pull packages out, rip them, open, haul out the contents,
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  Speaker 1: put a chalk mark on the package, and jam it
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  Speaker 1: back into the truck. When he has enough footage, the
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  Speaker 1: operator makes a note in his book. A duoonnier at
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  Speaker 1: work in the roar, shoves the book into his pocket,
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  Speaker 1: gets into the car, waves adieu to the long suffering
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: duoignier who relapsed back with their pipes against the wall
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  Speaker 1: of the shed. I watched movies taken of coal being loaded.
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  Speaker 1: The same fat operator an enormous pile of coal. Six
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  Speaker 1: worked and tore into the pile of coal. Get a
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  Speaker 1: move on, said the operator. Show some action. You're not
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  Speaker 1: on strike. You're working. They worked at top speed. Safe ney,
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  Speaker 1: said the operator, stopping cranking. The workmen straightened up. The
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  Speaker 1: movieman moved off. One workman looked up at the enormous
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  Speaker 1: mountain of coal. He's a pig, that's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: That cinema thing, his pal agreed, reaching down the first
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  Speaker 1: workman pulled out of his musette a bottle of good
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  Speaker 1: French wine. They had a long drink. The movieman was
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  Speaker 1: writing in his note book, our workers loading coal in
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  Speaker 1: the Ruar. End of Section ten, End of Dispatches from
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  Speaker 1: the Rar by Ernest Hemingway