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family had hoped he would also love the army and make it his life work, but he loved the land, so he bought himself a farm. He also has orchards, which surprised me, as I did not realise apples were grown in France commercially. His greatest wonder on seeing the farms in America were the homes on the farms, “they are so big and the barns so small,” in my country the houses small, barns they are big, the barns are three and four hundred years old, the ways this big” (showing us how big with his hands). English speaking does not come as easily to Mr. deFerany as to Mr. Martin, but iwith his little English dictionary he does remarkably well. Another thing which surprised him very much was seeing a well-dressed man chewing tobacco, said he had always heard America was very sanitary, “but that is dirty,” Mrs. Wood and I tried to explain to him that it was not really dirty, but just a very bad habit, he agreed it was, and also dirty.
Mr. Martin is married and is the very proud father of a son, he loVes showing you pictures of his wife (who is very pretty,, from her picture) and of his son. EJis home is only 12 miles from Germany and he speaks the German language fluently. You have no trouble understanding Mr. Martin, as his English is very good, he told us he had English in school as one of his studies. He is also a farmer.
Asking Martin the other night about conditions in his country and in Europe, he replied “bad, place to live right now”, but the people have great faith in General Eisenhower, and believe he, will help bring lasting peace, but he remarked, “He only has one or two years to be there, this is the
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