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...exist two armies responsible to two different commanders who are not responsible to one war minister. In terms of the hopes of a few days ago, this is a turning back of the French political clock. And hollow sound the recent words of De Gaulle and Giraud: 'Frenchmen, the unity you have been waiting for has been achieved...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...
...Reich Manpower Commissioner Fritz Sauckel demanded more. Laval's police and German troopers have raided factories, cafes, theaters and other places for able-bodied men, then herded them into freight cars for shipment abroad. Last week Laval took the most extreme step yet: he drafted 21-year-old Frenchmen working on Nazi fortifications in France for jobs inside Germany...
...Republic, successor to the unhappy Third (1870-1940). It might be months before the nations would accord the new Republic formal recognition (at week's end the U.S. and Britain had still not recognized formally the new French Committee of National Liberation as trustee for France), but already Frenchmen at home and abroad looked up. Said De Gaulle: "Fight with me and we will establish French sovereignty; fight with me and France will be beholden...
JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS - Eve Curie - Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Amonth before the U.S. went to war, Eve Curie took off for 40,000 miles of United Nations fronts, key cities, outposts. She talked to R.A.F. pilots, battle-bitten Free Frenchmen, Italian and German prisoners, Russian women, army doctors, machinists, a ballerina, Mohandas Gandhi, General Sir Archibald Wawell, Sir Stafford Cripps and Jawaharlal Nehru ( who described his career as "the popular and widely practiced profession of gaol-going"). Asked Eve Curie:" How do you react to the term Dominion Status? "Answered Nehru: " It makes me slightly seasick...