Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Land of Plenty. In the first place the people of this part of France are not hungry-far from it. This province is rich in milk, butter, cheese, eggs, beef, veal, cider, applejack and horseflesh. The countrymen are sturdy and long-lived. The women are as rosy-cheeked as the apples they pick, the children plump as pumpkins...
...bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
Patriots and Puppets. European leaders in exile speedily followed with messages to their countrymen. Premiers Pieter S. Gerbrandy of The Netherlands and Hubert Pierlot of Belgium told their people of the opening of invasion, and called on them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
Frenchmen heard the final contrast between the leader of Vichy, Marshal Pétain, and the leader in exile, General de Gaulle. The Old Man of Vichy, magnificent only in his consistency, begged his countrymen to ignore Allied or Gaullist commands, and to obey the Germans lest Nazi reprisal fall on France. General de Gaulle, shunned until the last moment, instructed them to heed "the French Government" (i.e., his own), and said: "France, overwhelmed . . . but never conquered, is on her feet to take part. . . . The simple, sacred duty is to fight...
Taffy-haired, wide-eyed Gunnar Skog (a pseudonym) was a schoolboy of 16 when the Nazis overran Norway four years ago. Like thousands of others among his 2,900,000 countrymen, he went into the underground to fight the German-Quisling tyranny. Recently he escaped to Sweden, then to Britain. Last week, en route through New York to "Little Norway" in Canada, where he expects to become a Royal Air Force navigator, he told this story of life under the Germans...