Word: andre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heads Free France is an inexperienced politician, a bad salesman; he was a figure of little personal prestige a year ago. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, whom the Free French now call simply Le General, has a too-tall (6 ft. 4 in.) body, big hips, a small head and the undynamic appearance frequently found in big men. But he has the unique advantage of being the one Frenchman who knew what was wrong with the French Army...
...Bolshevism to win an armistice. (Last week the Germans were once more "saving Europe" from Bolshevism.) But the General Staff never considered the Armistice anything more than an armistice. Kept intact through the Reichswehr, the General Staff planned to continue the war as soon as possible, first by what André Chéradame calls scientific warfare (propaganda, the war of nerves, etc.), later by armed conflict. Hitler, when he came to power, found a plan already made for him. "He is only carrying out the Pan-German idea with its logical developments...
...Dupes. "The Germans," says André Chéradame, "appear to have conquered Europe; in reality it was handed over to them. . . . Everything that has happened since has only been the result of the surrender of Czechoslovakia, an error without precedent in history on the part of the British leaders and a masterpiece of treason on the part of the French." For the surrender of the Bohemian bastion handed Mitteleuropa to Germany...
...America André Chéradame says: the size of the Americas favors invasion. With Fifth Column help Germany could land an air force in the Americas and establish a base from which she could be dislodged only by a superior air force. "In order to see things as they are," says he, "Americans need a disintoxication treatment. In order to act with decisive energy, Americans must realize that they have been just as methodically deceived as were the French and English." They must get rid of pacifism, defeatism, treason, isolationism, confusion, the delusion that the end of Hitler would...
...only method of achieving true peace is permanently to take away from the Germans the possibility of applying their intolerable plan of enslavement." First steps: build a "huge fleet" of bombers, train a guerrilla army like Britain's Home Guard (which André Chéradame credits with saving Britain from invasion); jail all Fifth Columnists...