NAPOLEONIC SUPPRESSION
Remarkable as is the degree to which the Nazi rulers have succeeded in doctoring air the news circulated in Germany, they do not seem, to have been able to hide ali unpleasant facts so completely as did Napoleon, says the "Manchester Guardian." When Fanny Burney, after living many years in France, landed at Portsmouth in 1813 and saw portraits of Nelson and heard the word "Trafalgar" she w&s puzzled and asked their meaning. So well had the secret of the great battle keen kept from the French people that no one with whom she had come.hi contact in France had ever heard of it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 10
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106NAPOLEONIC SUPPRESSION Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 10
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