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...plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against us are those Americans who are against the American people, those Englishmen who are against the English people, those Frenchmen who are against the French people . . . but in every country we have one friend, the people. . . . May Day will conquer...
...France's entire economy. It was doubtful whether brave little Ramadier's centrist Government could run the country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen saw two alternatives: 1) the Communists would triumphantly return to the Government, stronger than ever; 2) they would adopt a policy of increasingly violent opposition, precipitating strikes, strife and bloodshed...
First Cossacks, then Negroes. Frenchmen are so tired of conflict that even conservative De Gaulle talks of making France a balance between the U.S. and Russia. Said Marc Leroy, a bank clerk: "What a pity we cannot transport France to some place which is not in the middle. I would choose America. But," he added hastily, "I do not want to choose...
...economic conditions worsened, and France's uneasy coalition Government of Communists, Socialists and Catholics cracked under the strain, millions of Frenchmen might turn to De Gaulle again...
...Willing Men. The point missed by most critics, says Langer, is that Vichy was not simply Pétain, Darlan and Laval. They got the headlines, but "at all times [were] more than counterbalanced" by other Vichyites, mostly nameless, who were loyal Frenchmen at the least, and at most, zealously pro-Ally. Example: as early as spring 1941 the Deuxième Bureau (intelligence service) secretly agreed to send military reports to the U.S. Army in Washington, right under Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye's nose. According to U.S. diplomats at Vichy, French officialdom was 85% on the Allied side...