Word: frenchmen
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...land had bred a human race tolerant and amused. Now the Provencals joined in with the invaders to drive the German from their land. Along the shore among groves of cork oak, on the hills where pines tinged the air with the clean smell of resin, Frenchmen fought alongside the swiftly advancing troops of Major General Alexander M. (for McCarrell) Patch, U.S. commander of the Allied Seventh Army...
...whereabouts of doddering old Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was uncertain. Many Frenchmen were sure that he would be in Paris to meet the victorious Allies, if the Nazis did not kidnap him. But, a fortnight before, Petain had told diplomats still in Vichy: "Should it become known that I have left ... I wish to make it clear that I will not leave of my own volition...
...women thronged the bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive De Gaulle! But some among them had freed Frenchmen's work...
...wall by a group of resistance men, brandishing rifles and pistols. A group of U.S. photographers were told the pair was to be executed so the photographers could make pictures. TIME & LIFE'S Robert Landry protested that the men should be given a trial, at least. But the Frenchmen shouted: "We have been waiting four years for this-they are traitors...
...when these gutter-dwellers began to boo, with grim efficiency other Frenchmen, women & children singled out the hooters, drove them with surreptitious cuffs and curses from the Avenue. The prisoners grinned and marched on, chins up. Lest the parade arouse a real demonstration, the Germans sneaked the prisoners into a side street...