MAGINOT PEACE

my friend Duncan to have seen these French
cavalrymen.

Yet one evening, when I was with a North

African Division, General N------ was wise and

sombre. He thought himself that a peace of com-
promise would be better than a struggle which
could go against us.

'The Germans/ he said, care far superior in
numbers and they've more material: the contest
would be too one-sided. My men are as good as
any, but what can they do against tanks without
anti-tank guns?'

After the First Army, which formed the right of
the British, I went and saw the Seventh Army which
was on our left, and got to know the fine faces of
General Giraud and Admiral Abrial.

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