Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

29 July 1940

Germany has sunk a French refugee ship.

Sri Aurobindo (smiling): You have seen how Hitler says Churchill has sunk the French ship.

Purani: Does he say that?

Sri Aurobindo: Yes. The Daily Herald has a report, perhaps true, about Germany inventing the story that England is going to invade France and Germany will come in as a saviour. (Laughter)

Purani: Hitler wants all the world to believe this!

Nirodbaran: Probably it is meant for home consumption.

Purani: He is making Brittany an autonomous state, it appears.

Sri Aurobindo: Yes. If reports are true, he intends to take back Alsace-Lorraine and make a kingdom of Flanders with Northern France included in it. Perhaps Italy will take Savoy, Nice and Corsica.

Nirodbaran: Mussolini is stretching his arm to Palestine too.

Sri Aurobindo: Yes, and he wants to drive out the Jews en masse.

Satyendra: Poor Jews! They have been cursed through the ages, driven out from everywhere.

Nirodbaran: Why is it so?

Sri Aurobindo: Firstly, they have always tried to keep their individuality and, secondly, everywhere, by their cleverness, they have come to the top in all the professions and have created envy among others.