No Passport For Paris

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NO PASSPORf FOR PARIS G. P. PUTNAMS SONS, NEW YORK 5 BY ALICE-LEONE 1MOATS rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form zvithoitt Government ivartime restrictions oil materials have made it essential that the amount of paper used in each book be reduced to a. minimum . This volume is printed on lighter paper than would have been used before material limita tions became necessary, and the number of ivords on each page has been substantially increased. The smaller bulh in no ivay indicates that the text has been shortened. by Robert Josephy MAKT7FA. CTTJR. ED IN THE UNITED STATES OF TKCIS B o o KL is IE o R ZNdl O T H E R A OST r I V T CONTENTS PART i SPAIN L The Purpose of My Trip to France 1 2. A Summing Up of the Situation in Spain 4 3. Arrival in Madrid 10 4. The Seville Fair 16 5. Life in Madrid 24 6. Censorship and the Press 31 7. Interned American Flyers 41 8. Aristocrats and Diplomats 48 9. Keeping House in Madrid 55 10. Journeys to Galicia and Andalusia 63 1L Navarre and the Basque Country 71 12. A Pilgrimage to Pena de Francia 78 13. A Wedding in Galicia 85 14. The Concentration Camp of Miranda de Ebro 94 15. Memorial Mass for os Antonio American Propa ganda in Spain 104 16. Dinner with Grandpop 108 17. Luncheon with Republican Prisoners 115 18. The Fdange 121 19. The Minister Secretary General of the Party Tal s 126 20. Christmas at Credos 131 21. The Wolfram Crisis 138 22. The Minister of Industry and Commerce 145 PART ii NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE 23. Preparations for the Journey to France 157 24. Crossing the Pyrenees 163 25. Arrival in France 172 26. A Wee inPau 180 27. Preparations for the Trip to Paris 187 28. An American Fighter Pilot 19229. Biarritz and Bayonne 200 30. On the Train to Paris 207 31. Arrival in Paris 213 32. An Allied Air Raid 219 33. Dinner with Collaborationists 227 34. A Conversation with a Member of the Waffen SS 233 35. Three Underground Leaders 239 36. Departure - from Paris 247 37. Return to Spain 255 38. Tempest in a Teapot 266 39. It Was Worth It 274 PART I SPAIN . 7 40 My Seven weeks before the Allied armies landed in Normandy, I went to France. Since that country was still under Nazi domination, I had to make a clandestine entry. That meant crossing the Pyrenees on foot. Once in France, I was able to travel by train and remained there, in all, three weeks. During that time I visited the Basses Pyrenees district, the southwest coastal zone, Paris, and Toulouse. It was an arduous and dangerous journey, but a great adventure. It could have cost me my life, but as an experience it was worth all the risks involved. I obtained an invaluable insight into the spirit of a con quered nation. The thousands of Americans who arrived in France after I was there saw the French people at the moment of their libera tion, when they were filled with the joy of knowing that their country was about to be freed. I saw them at the lowest point in their history, when their hope of being liberated had been dashed again and again, when they were being persecuted as never before by their enemies, and bombed by their friends. In close contact with the Underground all the time, I was able to gauge accurately what was being accomplished in France in the way of active resistance. Passing as a Frenchwoman, I almost began to feel that I was French, and I was able to catch something of the spirit of the people. It was arevelation in how strong the will to live can be, not only in human beings but in a nation. I also came to know the sensation which is a rare one for an Ameri can that of being hunted. I understood what it felt like to tremble at the sound of a footstep, to jump every time there was a knock on the door. I had to learn to keep a close watch on my every movement and word. A mistake of any kind could easily have placed me in front of a firing squad. What I learned didnt always fit in with what I had expected to find before I went to France...