Translations:CP 05405/44/en

If it isn’t too much of a nuisance to you I would like to ask your advice, not as Director of L’Intransigeant but as a reserve officer and above all as a friend. In a word, after having completed my military service in the infantry (and at present having pulled more "strings" to avoid being discharged than many others have done in order to be), and being too ill I was later appointed as an administrative officer. But as my health worsened I have never exercised any of those duties (even though I have been promoted in seniority!), so that four years ago after a visit from a major, I was struck off the lists on health grounds by presidential order.