Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to "Frisco's Frenchman" in TIME (April 3): we all liked the article very much indeed, but we must take exception to the statement that Mr. Monteux dyes his hair. We will be in New York in November when this French-American will conduct the New York Philharmonic, and we would like very much to invite the editors of TIME to assist at a thorough shampooing of the Maitre's black locks. If one bit of coloring is found in the water, we cordially invite said editors to the Stork Club for a champagne dinner...
Rumor said that he would go to London to write his memoirs: the story of a Frenchman who had fought from the Atlas to the Vosges, seen the inside of German prisons in two wars, dreamed once of leading la patrie's liberation...
Passage to Marseille (Warner). It is just before the fall of France. A freighter, bound from New Caledonia for Marseille, is captained by a brave and gentle Frenchman (Victor Francen). One of his passengers (Sydney Greenstreet) is a professional soldier and a Fascist. An air corps officer (Claude Rains) is blithely unconcerned when he realizes that five derelicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias) whom the ship picks up are fugitives from Devil's Island. They have escaped in order to fight for France...
...When invasion comes, Darnand's job will be to keep order in the rear of the German defenders. In advance of invasion, his job is to quiet those Frenchmen who yearn too strongly for it. His personally appointed courts now have the power of life & death over any Frenchman they can catch. His thugs do not require even this veneer of legality...
...Most of them were well-intentioned. It was not treachery, viciousness, wickedness, nor even laziness that stifled them. It was simply indecision, confusion, uncertainty, lack of friends, lack of leadership, and the willingness to blame others for the plight of France which resulted from more causes than any Frenchman knew...