When I was asked to speak in English before your distinguished society and to trace the influence of St Thomas on French politics. I thought: O, I can do that all right. My English is very bad, but it is good enough for that. I shall settle quietly into my chair. I'll repeat the question. I’ll look at my audience in silence for some minutes, and I'll say: ‘Nothing'. That will be all. That will be the only answer. But after some reflection I guessed that you would not be satisfied with it, you would find it too brief. Then I went on thinking. I remembered plenty of men who had been working with us at the Vie Intellectuelle, men who are now ministers, ambassadors, prefects, chiefs of party, deputies, and so on. I remembered that great lecture in which Jacques Maritain, now French Ambassador to the Holy See. had expounded his theory concerning Catholic and political action. Andre Colin, since a Minister, was present. Georges Bidault, now Ministre des Affaires Etrangèros. was there too, and lie questioned Jacques Maritain, and lie himself gave us his idea as to what French politics should be like. A few years later I also met Maurice Schumann, who lived in London during the war and was ‘le porte-parole de la France combattante at the B.B.C. Every month he would write the chronicle of foreign politics in La Vie Intellectuelle, using various pseudonyms such as Maurice-Jacques, Sidobre, etc. I remembered my great friend, Robert Delavignette.