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road if you're going from Montpelier to Carscaonne, or some such place as that, you see. You turn off to the left, and go right straight down to the Mediterranean. It's a little bit of a place.

Well, he wasn't in Cette, but he was in a place not far from Cette where he was hidden, and I knew where he was. It had been told to me by Andre Tixier, who became the Minister of the Interior in the first French Government. He was an old I.L.O. man, a member of the staff. He was a staff-member of the I.L.O., and he came into the French Government. He was in the Underground, you see. Came into the new French Government, the deGaulle Government that they set up right after the War, as a Minister of the Interior, and it was from him that I got my idea that you must never let the Interior into the Communist hands, no matter what you do. The Police forces must never go anywheres near the Communists. If you have to let the Communists into the Government, don't let them into the Police force, and the Interior-of course was where the Police forces of France are.

Well, Tixier was there, and that was a great reunion. And M. Viulpe was there, and Wallin was there--oh, everybody. You see it was really a very emotional situation. Sir John Forbes Watson, who hadn't been too popular because he represented the employers--people just fell on his neck to greet him. There was a great sense of reunion. People had changed awfully, of course.

Then the meetings went on as usual in the Sorbonne.





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