Translations:CP 02844/15/en
As for those killed in the war they are exemplary, even more than can be expressed. Everything that has been written about poor Psichari, who I didn’t know but I heard so much about, is completely false[1]. And apart from one or two of them, those literary men who now think that they are “serving” through their writing, talk very badly about it all. (There are exceptions - have you read “Les Trois Croix” by Daniel Halévy in the Débats[2], a paper in which, incidentally, there is an article every day by I don’t know who, called “The Military Situation”, which is remarkable and plainly written).