CROUCH IN CELLARS
MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCE
LISTEN TO U.S.A. BROADCASTS
“The men and women of France crouch in cellars or hide in their barns, listening secretly to shortwave broadcasts from the United' States. Many have built their radio sets inside the steps of their staircases or half-way up their chimneys.
At the risk of prison sentences or death penalties they are getting the news their Nazi masters, aided by Nazi sympathisers in France are trying to suppress. In many cases after they listened, they wrote to the broadcasters in the United States. Here is a letter addressed to the Voice of America and received 1 by the ShortWave Division of the NBC’ a few days before Laval returned to power: ‘Listen to us. Hear us. Talk for us. Do not believe that we will ever yield' to slow death. Do not mistake us, the people. And, whatever happens,, when you wish to proclaim a truth, repeat that we are together—we have confidence, we in you, you in us. But, you must never stop saying it—never!’ ” —M. F. Auberjonois, direc- 1 tor French language broadcasts, NBC.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 6
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