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...warily as a sleepwalker. Wrote the Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara: "De Gaulle has passed hours interviewing members of resistance groups. ... He has noticed that they are not in agreement either among themselves or with the men who have been in exile. ... He knows the country is in ferment, seething with new ideas and aspirations, but also craving peace and order. . . . His conclusion has been that he should not take rash measures...
...Europe was in bold ferment last week. In Paris, members of the Underground caught and killed loud-mouthed Fascist Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister of Propaganda. In the sun-baked foothills of the Pyrenees, patriots took and held for two days the storied town of Bergerac...
Resistance bubbled up like a ferment within conquered France-and was met by a wave of hysterical repression. The Paris radio admitted some 4,000 arrests within 15 days. Swiss observers at the border saw French guerrilla fighters gunning it out with regular German troops. There was sabotage as usual...
...next decades will be a time of distress and of gnashing of teeth. We shall live in the hollow of the historial wave . . . [but] the day is not far when the present interregnum will end and a new horizontal ferment will arise ... an irresistible global mood, a spiritual springtide like early Christianity or the Renaissance. It will probably mark the end of our historical era, the period which began with Galileo, Newton and Columbus, the age of scientific formulation ... of the ascendance of reason over spirit...
...Bellies. Heaviest of the burdens was the oldest one-the weight of India's 390,000,000 Moslems and Hindus of many castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure...