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North Africa's Proconsul Weygand is the only important foe of all-out collaboration left in the Vichy Government. By holding out against German demands in North Africa he has prevented wholesale desertions to Free Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle. His resignation or his surrender to the collaborationists would probably precipitate internal troubles and give the Germans an excuse to intervene to preserve order. It was significant that reports from Vichy included the statement: "There is no indication as to the duration of his visit-or the date of his return to Algiers...
Forty-eight hours later 50 French prison ers stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
This week NBC started a new series of short-wave broadcasts for Europe and South America entitled Hitler Betrayed by Himself. Worked up with the collaboration of Free Frenchman Raoul de Roussy de Sales, the program consists of quotations read by one voice from Hitler's declarations on various topics, followed by another voice recalling what actually occurred. This is about...
...most exciting parts of his book. Van Paassen wandered in wartime Paris like a man in a city of tombs. He watched the mobile guards leave for the front: "Not a smile . . . not once a cheer." "C'est bien morne," said van Paassen aloud. "Non, monsieur" a Frenchman corrected him, "it is sinister...
...ever refer again to Charles Boyer as balding or banjo-eyed! He wears a toupee-so what? And his eyes are definitely not banjo-eyes. They are, rather, soft, sleepy and caressing. And furthermore, who has a better right to have eyes soft and caressing than a Frenchman...