So nobody can say where lies what was
left of Guynemer: and no hand had touched him. Dead though he was, he
escaped. He who was life and movement itself, could not accept the
immobility of the tomb.
German applause, like that with which the Greeks welcomed the dead body
of Hector, did not fail to welcome Guynemer's end. At the end of three
weeks a coarse and discourteous paean was sung in the _Woche_. In its
issue of October 6, this paper devoted to Guynemer, under the title
"Most Successful French Aviator Killed," an article whose lying
cowardice is enough to disgrace a newspaper, and which ought to be
preserved to shame it. A reproduction of Guynemer's diploma was given
with the article, which ran as follows:
Captain Guynemer enjoyed high reputation in the French army, as he
professed having brought down more than fifty airplanes, but many
of these were proved to have got back to their camps, though
damaged it is true. The French, in order to make all verification
on our side impossible, have given up stating, in the past few
months, the place or date of their so-called victories.
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