Out To Win - The Story of America in France by Coningsby (Coningsby William) Dawson
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they are employed in aerodromes."
* * * * * These extracts should serve to explain the mental and physical depression of the returning exiles. They have been bullied out of the desire to live and out of all possession of either their bodies or their souls. They have been treated like cattle, and as cattle they have come to regard themselves. Lazaruses--that's what they are! The unmerciful Boche, having killed and buried them, drags them out from the tomb and compels them to go through the antics of life. Le Gallienne's poem comes to my mind: "Loud mockers in the angry street Say Christ is crucified again-- Twice pierced those gospel-bearing feet, Twice broken that great heart in vain...." That is all true at Evian. But when I see the American men and girls, leaning over the Boche babies in their cots and living their hearts into the hands and feet of the spiritually maimed, the last two lines of the poem become true for me: "I hear, and to myself I say, 'Why, Christ walks with me every day.'" The work of the American Red Cross at Evian is largely devoted to children. It provides all the ambulance transportation for the repatriƩs, to and from the station. American doctors and nurses do all the examining of the children at the Casino. On an average, four |
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