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...have not been heard from since they fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions, an airborne division and an armored division thoroughly experienced in overwater invasion. There were also General Henri Honore Giraud's 200,000 Frenchmen, equipped with U.S. weapons, ready and eager to fight for the liberation of France...
Proclaimed General Charles de Gaulle: "The hour of supreme combat and sacrifice has struck." In Algiers' cobbled streets the ragged newsboys shouted: "Allied invasion!" "Is it France?" cried Frenchmen, then snatched up the single-sheet papers, saw that it was Italy, turned away...
...Mobilization for military or civil service of all Frenchmen anywhere in the Empire or abroad...
Returning to religion, Kluckhohn declared, "at present we need a new faith that will hold us together. Religion that is supernaturalism is a bad thing." He pointed out the usual statement in defense of religion now is "that many million Frenchmen can't be wrong" and thus religion lacks the necessary convincing punch...
When he became Secretary, Leger had written two thin books of verse, Eloges (1910) and Anabase (his most talked-about poem, 1924). Most Frenchmen never heard of these symbolistic efforts and most of those who did thought them as tortuous and intangible as Leger's diplomacy. But they were well read (says Hemispheres Editor Goll) at the superrealistic Wilhelmstrasse...