November the third. Dr Raoul Jolivet is arrested. He'll be interrogated this afternoon after being left without food and drink for two days. The Gestapo discovered that he had been treating the partisan Colonel Bruno, wounded in the abdomen by an SS foot patrol attacked by Bruno and his men at dawn near Germigny, less than a week ago. I had known for some time of the Colonel's Maquis in the vicinity of St Amand. He had succeeded in recruiting a few Marxist volunteers aged between seventeen and twenty from the free zone, who had asked to join his unit. They had been forced to stay in hiding since last summer. Bruno's real name is Elie Jacob. I know very little about him.
All I know is that he had been secretary to Maurice Thorez until 1939. At present the Colonel's objective is to create a
