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...with General Charles de Gaulle. Within the next fortnight the U.S. would recognize the Committee as the "provisional authority" of France (see p. 33). Paving the way, Franklin Roosevelt said last week: "The time will soon come when the Nazis in France "will learn from millions of brave Frenchmen-now underground-that the people of France, also, are not at all out of this...
Dumesnil hid his share. André Pierre tried changing a note or two. Police were informed of strange serial numbers, arrested both men. Hard-pressed Frenchmen guffawed among themselves when they learned that the bank had known nothing of its loss...
Killer at Work. When invasion comes, Darnand's job will be to keep order in the rear of the German defenders. In advance of invasion, his job is to quiet those Frenchmen who yearn too strongly for it. His personally appointed courts now have the power of life & death over any Frenchman they can catch. His thugs do not require even this veneer of legality...
...Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon the executors in the Liberation...
Arms and the Purge. Frenchmen in Algiers pressed another case: the need of their comrades inside France for arms. The resistance movement in the homeland, they claimed, should be recognized as the vanguard of Allied invasion. In the ranks of 40,000 shock troops actively harrying the Germans, there was not more than one weapon for every 20 men. "The underground movement," said one resistance delegate, "is dying from exhaustion...