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...plan worked. Yeo-Thomas and his friends were given the identity cards of three Frenchmen who had died in the camp hospital. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to another camp, Gleina, as Maurice Chouquet. There he worked in the hospital, and watched his chance to escape. It came only when the whole camp was moved eastward, into Czechoslovakia, for extermination. On the way he bribed another Gestapo officer and, during a halt to bury some dead prisoners, led a mass flight across the fields to a nearby wood...
Luncheon was ending when a German military convoy drove into Oradour. A few curious Frenchmen left the tables to watch the helmeted soldiers dismount. Two yellow and green camouflaged tanks took up a position in front of the 15th century church of Oradour. Then old Jean Depierrefiche, the town blacksmith who was also the town crier, went through the streets calling on all inhabitants to assemble at the market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came...
...France, cabled a correspondent last week, "there is not a majority for liking German rearmament, but there is a ma jority for having it." Yet it was the French who had first insisted on the complexities of the European Army, as their price for letting Germany rearm. Now many Frenchmen, including Marshal Juin, were coming to see that the chains that bind Germany would also chafe France...
...Shih compared the Nationalist struggle to regain the mainland with France's struggle to free herself of the Nazis in World War II. But he counseled patience as well as perseverance. "The deliverance of France," he said, "took place not only through the individual efforts of loyal Frenchmen . . . but because a free France had become an integral part of global strategy . . . We know that half a million [Nationalist] soldiers are not enough to retake the mainland. Our future is linked with that of the free world, which must one of these days answer the question whether it is going...
...Modern Frenchmen had forgotten all about the Petit Château but in Louis XV's day it set their ancestors' tongues wagging from one end of France to the other. Frenchmen could only guess at what went on in the privacy of the little château. The royal architects discouraged prying eyes by setting its nine rooms-two boudoirs, dining room, a few guest rooms-in a small garden surrounded by a high wall. Even the servants were kept out of sight. The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered...