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Castelneau was at Nancy at the beginning of the war and is supposed by stopping the Crown Prince's army to have been the real cause of preventing the Germans getting into Paris.  Mr Bacon had been to see Castelneau just after we arrived in Paris to see, after the Belgian matter did not materialize, what the condition in his zone was and if there was a necessity for a hospital such as we proposed to start.  He spoke to him also about ambulances and Castelneau jumpted at the ambulance idea.  They had hospitals - all they wanted for the moment.

While Mr Bacon & Dr Gros went in to talk to the general Phil & I stayed outside a little ways down the road - for it was considered better for me to play a very unimportant part on these occasions.  In Mr Bacon's laisser passer we were all mentioned, but I was looked upon with suspicion from the start.  Although I appeared as Madame Whitney de l'Ambulance Americaine.

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Castelnau