But Christmas--that's the thing now.

Christmas! What bloody irony it is on this side the world! Still there will be many pleasant and touching things done.

An Englishman came in to see me the other day and asked if I'd send $1,000 to Gerard[25] to use in making the English prisoners in Germany as happy as possible on Christmas Day--only I must never tell anybody who did it.

A lady came on the same errand--for the British prisoners in Turkey, and with a less but still a generous sum.

The heroism, the generosity, the endurance and self-restraint and courtesy of these people would melt a pyramid to tears.