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...high-ceilinged room where the French Consultative Assembly meets in Algiers, François de Menthon, Commissioner of Justice, began a speech. He spoke of 288 Vichyites who had been accused of treason, collaboration and other crimes against France and Frenchmen, but had not yet been tried and punished. No sound came from the 80-odd Assemblymen...
...Menthon spoke on, pleading that the difficulties of General de Gaulle and the Liberation (administrative) Committee must be understood; that they could not act as rapidly and drastically as Frenchmen demanded. No sound, no gesture, came from the Frenchmen who heard...
...Fellow doctors, if we do not exert ourselves, you will be mobilized in Germany, then shifted to the battlefields of the East where, in a German uniform, you will die for the King of Prussia. . . . Help to resist deportation by eliminating as many Frenchmen as you can at 'medical examinations'. . . . Prepare to stay in France in spite of the order...
...directive from Dr. Grasset, "minister [of health] by the grace of Hitler," says that Frenchmen to be sent to Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude-a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death...
...recognition of the Algiers government now or soon after France is invaded; 2) support in one way or another of Marshal Henri Pétain; or 3) an attempt to postpone the whole issue, deal with France during the invasion interim as a military area. The overwhelming testimony of Frenchmen in France and out was that either alternative to recognition of Algiers would lead to bloody disaster: Frenchmen slaying Frenchmen, bitter hatred between Frenchmen and their "liberators...