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...since the days of the great Marshal Lyautey had Frenchmen been so conscious of empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
...Frenchmen All. A special Government statement already had announced that the empire would be sweepingly reorganized as "the French Union." Most likely, it would become federal in structure, with representative governments for its components and a representative Federal Assembly of the Union. Specifically, the Government had assured Indo-China, one of the empire's richest colonies (tin, rubber, rice, strategic bases) that it would have democratic and equalitarian liberty, including "ministers chosen from among the Indo-Chinese [23,000,000] as well as from French residents...
Ebullient Pierre Mendès-France is a youthful (38) politician with a veteran's flair for gauging the public mood. Last week spring burgeoned in Paris, and it was inevitable that winter-weary, war-worn Frenchmen should feel that at least half their troubles were over. Sensitive Mendes-France sniffed deeply and bounced up with the most optimistic official word yet on French recovery...
With averted, shame-filled eyes his fellow Frenchmen listened. Swiftly the three judges and 24 jurors, mostly men of the Resistance, rendered their judgment: for Traitor Esteva not death but life imprisonment, confiscation of his possessions. loss of his five stars...
...vacuum. What else could they do in the face of the General's integrity, prestige and stubbornness? Full well they knew that they could carry their point (or lose it altogether) only at the polls-and that there could be no general election until the 3,000,000 Frenchmen now prisoners in Germany had come home...