Word: frenchmen
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...spoke up against political purging. Said he: men should be judged not by past actions but by present performances. Communist Grenier and his comrades had good reason to advocate this policy. Not long ago he said: "In the prewar and early war period many of us were Communists first, Frenchmen second. Now we are Frenchmen first, Communists second...
Gaullists were happy over the tide of events. But Frenchmen of other sympathy were troubled. In the Algiers Consultative Assembly, Communists and others did not like General de Gaulle's highhanded disposal of General Giraud, worried over his program for liberated France. A striking parallel developed between the extreme Left and the extreme Right among French refugees: both camps warned De Gaulle and the world that Frenchmen in France will determine the fate of France...
...President wanted General Eisen hower to pick and choose the Frenchmen with whom he would deal when he got to France. This incredibly dangerous proposal has had its repercussions in the . . . quarrel between General de Gaulle and General Giraud. The reasoning of the French at Algiers is self-evident: ... It will ... be not the French Committee but . . . the French Commander in Chief who will tell General Eisenhower what Frenchmen to deal with. . . . Because Mr. Roosevelt's policy would give Giraud the initial control of civil affairs in France, General Giraud must be deposed...
...over his prisoner to the Vichy police or let Cinemactor Flynn impersonate the saboteur and thus free the hostages from the Gestapo? The problem is mildly complicated by Murderer Flynn's dalliance with a small-town girl (Jean Sullivan). At last Flynn and Lukas decide that they are Frenchmen even more than murderer and plain-clothes man. The ethical problem is solved and the picture ended in what readers of A Tale of Two Cities will recognize as a brisk burst of Sydney Carton...
...Frenchmen could also look farther back, to a time when France's name was synonymous with freedom of thought-the days of Jean Jacques Rousseau and François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, who discovered for the people that "liberty of thought is the life of the soul...