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Millions cheer Churchill in Paris armistice parade
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Paris, France (UP) –
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in Paris for the first time in five years, received one of the most tumultuous welcomes of his career today when at least one million persons cheered his participation in Armistice Day celebrations.
Mr. Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew to Paris yesterday, but rigid security regulations held up the announcement of their arrival until today.
The British Prime Minister stood with Gen. Charles de Gaulle this morning during the Armistice Day wreathing of the French Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Then they walked slowly down half a mile of the thronged, beflagged Champs-Élysées to the saluting stand for the big parade.
‘Vive Churchill’
Despite the best efforts of Allied military and civilian police, part of the crowd broke away out of control. A solid mass of humanity surged around Mr. Churchull and Gen. de Gaulle, cheering wildly and shouting “Vive Churchill” and Vive de Gaulle.
Beaming and flourishing his cigar, Mr. Churchill repeatedly waved the cap of the RAF air commodore’s uniform he wore. Gen. de Gaulle’s usually stern face relaxed and he too saluted the crowd with clockwork regularity.
Mr. Eden joined Mr. Churchill and Gen. de Gaulle at the reviewing stand. Together they stood for more than an hour, surrounded by cabinet members and foreign diplomats and taking the salute during a parade of some 8,000 U.S., British and French troops.
First since liberation
It was the first Allied military parade in Paris since the liberation, and it had all the atmosphere of a victory celebration.
Parisians were packed 10 deep along the Champs-Élysées and hanging from every window, balcony and rooftop. They roared a tremendous ovation to a detachment of U.S. infantry, military police and sailors headed by an American Army band.
Like cheers greeted units of British Guards regiments, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the Canadian Army. Every bid unit of the French Army was represented in the parade, some wearing American and British uniforms.
Put wreaths on tomb
Shortly before 11:00 a.m., Mr. Churchill and Gen. de Gaulle arrived at the Arc de Triomphe. Stepping out of autos, they walked slowly to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and placed wreaths on it.
On the stroke of 11, a single cannon shot sounded over the city, signalizing the time for a minute of silence. Then the big parade began.
The armistice celebration was more or less incidental to the visit of Messrs. Churchill and Eden, who flew here in a Dakota transport plane for conferences with Gen. de Gaulle and other French officials.
Shake hands
When the big transport plane came down at a field outside Paris, Mr. Churchill stepped out, hastened forward to greet Gen. de Gaulle, seized his hand impetuously and cried in French: “My dear General, this is indeed a pleasure.”
The party included Mrs. Churchill, Mary Churchill (the Prime Minister’s daughter), Sir Alexander Cadogan (Permanent Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs), and Nicholas Langford (Mr. Eden’s private secretary).
Mrs. Eden was already in Paris. She came on ahead to assist the welcoming committee.
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I DARE SAY —
A time to remember
By Florence Fisher Parry
Today is a day to remember November 11.
I remember it. The whistles blew in our town, bells rang, people ran into the streets calling and laughing and embracing one another, the tears streaming down their cheeks.
Not all, though. Some sat back in the shadows of their rooms, their bodies bent forward in an odd hurt attitude and swaying slowly from the waist, the way great agony of heart takes hold of the body…
Even then, in their sudden awful pain, they did not know what had befallen them. it was too fresh, a strange merciful unrealness still pervaded their grief. Afterwards, long afterwards, the loss began to sink in. sometimes I think that death – the terrible COST of death – can never be computed until a generation passes – then the loss stands out clear.
That is why, when I pass the windows today and see the gold stars in the little flags, I “think such a pity of,” (as they say up home) the mothers, fathers, wives… It will not be for years that they will really realize what has befallen them. It is so hard to estimate the compound interest of one lost life in one single family! It keeps on growing, growing… IF he had not been killed… if… if… IF… it follows the whole long history of a family clan.
Stopped
Let us face it today – this is a proper day to face it. Germany has won a victory this year. She has stopped us. One-mile-a-day advance into her fortress – that has been the average progress. At this rate, how long, say? MAYBE it will be over in the spring, that canny prophet Churchill is saying to us now.
The spring! When spring comes ‘round, how many more gold stars? …
WHAT’S WRONG WITH US? WHAT IS THIS SOFTNESS IN US, that we will put up with this probability? Rise in the morning, go about our snug safe home front OWN affairs? Eat, spend, enjoy ourselves, relax, deny ourselves really nothing – Nothing! While there along the borders of Germany, winter seals up the fate of millions of OUR boys, OUR sons, OURS, OURS!
I talked to a woman who was on her way to the Red Cross Blood Bank. She’d lost her only son. How, they had not heard yet; he was dead, that’s all they knew. She was in a hurry, there was much to do down there, trying to substitute with walk-ins, volunteers off the street, those dozens of cancellations which every day defeat them in their desperate necessity of finding blood, more blood, to send our dying boys!
She said:
We can’t get donors anymore. We’re way below what we must have! There seems no way to re-arouse the people! At first, they gave; they came in droves; the Blood Bank did a thriving work, the mobile units came back loaded with blood donations. But lately we cannot seem to stir the people into believing that the greatest need is NOW, TODAY, TOMORROW!
Shame!
What is it, this awful national malady of apathy? Are we growing used to having our boys die? return maimed, useless, dependent, bitter in the growing knowledge that we DID let them down? The base hospitals and field hospitals and the perilous, packed first aid stations right at the battle line are packed, packed with American wounded who need blood. Sometimes it takes 16 units (that is, the equivalent of 16 pints of blood) for just the FIRST transfusion, and that one only the first of as many as 20 or 30 more transfusions! THAT’S JUST ONE of our wounded. It might take a pint of blood from each of 300 persons to save one life!
It’s Armistice Day. How dare we “celebrate” it; bow our heads before the lowered flag; pray; count ourselves one of the Home Front Army, and know that we have not made this one vital contribution, a pint of blood three, four, five times!
It’s Armistice Day. November. Winter. Our THIRD winter of war. It’s well on its way. Our boys are cold, homesick. They thought they’d be home for Thanksgiving – well, then, Christmas.
They’ll be wanting to know why the whole thing’s starting to bog down. And when they DO finally come, they’ll find the answers, they’ll see to that, all right.
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Roosevelt honors Unknown Soldier
Wreath placed by military aide
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt stood today before the Tomb of America’s Unknown Soldier of the last war to give silent expression to the nation’s Armistice Day remembrance of its fallen dead.
A brisk wind snapped the Stars and Stripes as the President, standing at the side of this car, watched Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, his military aide, lay a wreath of chrysanthemums on the tomb.
It was the nation’s 26th observance of the end of the first war in Europe.
In the brief ceremony, the Commander-in-Chief took the lead in observing the third wartime Armistice Day as an array of military and naval honor guards stood at attention.
A military band played the National Anthem and the gathering, including several hundred spectators watching from the Arlington National Ceremony amphitheater and grounds nearby, joined in the minute of silence at 11:00 a.m. which recalled the end of the last war at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal rode with Mr. Roosevelt in his open phaeton from the White House. The President dispensed with his usual waves of recognition to bystanders en route to the solemn ceremony.
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Liberal support credited by Guffey
‘Worked 11 months on election,’ he says
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt can attribute his reelection to wholehearted liberal support which worked 11 months for him and his party, Senator Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA), staunch adherent of Mr. Roosevelt, declared today.
Mr. Guffey declared:
In this election, we had all the liberals on the same side of the street, keeping in step and walking in the same direction.
We worked 11 months on this election. That’s why we won.
‘Magnificent’ support
He said “magnificent” support from labor plus a large turnout at the polls due to good organizing was responsible for Democratic gains in Congress as well as in the reelection of the President.
Mr. Guffey said Rep. Francis J. Myers (D-PA), who is leading the veteran Senator James J. Davis (R-PA), is “a very fine, able young man who will be a creditable addition to the Senate; he is well educated and has the necessary application to make a very successful Senator.”
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‘Cannot be bossed’
The election, he said, proved to him that Pennsylvania voters “cannot be bossed by big money.” He estimated the Republicans through their state organization raised $426,000 in Allegheny Cunty alone up to Oct. 20, and gave as his “conservative” estimate a total GOP expenditure of over $4 million in the state.
Mr. Guffey said he was not surprised at the large electoral vote for Mr. Roosevelt.
He declared:
I have been saying for some time it would be a landslide for the President, and it was.