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...other unwelcome visitation, with patience and a good deal of phlegm. The people here are not as demonstrative or excitable as are the people of many parts of France, and the wars of 1870 and 1914 had left them without the active hatred of the Germans that other Frenchmen felt. And so they went on with their cattle raising and farming and horse-racing and with their smalltown occupations. Although the resistance movement was not inactive, the majority of the people took as little part in it as they had in the political struggles between the two world wars...
...noncommittal printing on the currency (TIME, June 19). But to the Gaullists, the main issue was not the currency itself, however dubious its worth. It was simply that no U.S. or British authority had any business floating currency in France. That, said the Gaullists, was solely the function of Frenchmen. When the Allied command supplied its soldiers with non-French "francs," the whole principle of French sovereignty was imperiled...
...Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...
...They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
...cider-drinking oldster saying "We never thought you would come. I
was in bed with my wife when we heard the bombardment. I said to her,
we can die downstairs or we can die upstairs. We may just as well die
in bed!"