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...because Mitterrand is fading from public life, revelations about his % activities during the war have prompted more reminiscences than recriminations. Pean prints a wartime letter he discovered from Henri Frenay, chief of the United Movement of the Resistance. An aide of Charles de Gaulle's Opposition-in-exile had questioned Mitterrand's newfound Resistance fervor, given his previous dedication to Vichy. "France's drama," Frenay wrote back, "is that its honest and impartial men believed, during a certain time, in Marshal Petain and placed their trust in him. They, without a doubt, made a mistake, but it was an innocent...
...Reception Center) in Paris' Quartier de l'Europe. But soon small raiding forces, guided by individual "reconnaissance units" of ex-prisoners, peeled off to obtain by "peaceful infiltration" of food and clothing stores the necessities promised (but still unprovided) by the Government. Minister of Prisoners & Deportees Henri Frenay and Food Minister Paul Ramadier had good intentions but lacked supplies...
...swarmed into a department store, emerged later with the shop's stock of men's suits. A hungry group headed for the markets around the Hotel de Ville, raided peddlers' carts and grocery stores for food. Others marched through the streets demanding the resignations of Ministers Frenay and Ramadier. There was little belligerency, no revolutionary cries, but there was determination. For the goods they confiscated the prisoners often paid in I.O.U.s, which the storekeepers took to the Government for reimbursement. In many shops the shelves were bare. Several big shops, among them Paris' famed Cent Mille...
...division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...
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