Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 117
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[Page 117]
& now as I see in the paper this morning they are getting ready to open the Avenue with a great Victory procession. No wonder the French nation to a man hate Germany with a deep & undying hatred that I don't think will ever die. As if it was not bad enough to take Alsace-Lorraine & £200,000,000 from her without adding all these cowardly insults to an honourable people who had fought fair & square, but they have had a bit of their own back & now King George is being welcomed by these same people & tomorrow old Foch & Tiger Clemenceau are coming to London how I should like to be there for if ever men deserved a welcome well these are they. I don't reckon anything is too good for Foch, this war would still have been raging if he had not taken things over & directed operations, & what a success he made of things, & the English people fully realise this.