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...wild and angry as when Frenchmen had cried "a has la Bastille!", the voice of French resistance echoed last week from the Pyrenees to the Swiss Alps. In its violent aspects it was still a minority resistance. But it spoke with gunfire in Paris, with hand grenades in Lyon...
...Frenchmen hid out in cities. Many fled to the Alps, many to the wild Haute-Savoie region along the Swiss frontier. They dug up buried guns and ammunition and joined former officers of the French Army. From "somewhere in France," a "Headquarters of Francs-Tireurs and Partisans" reported that 282 German officers and men had been killed, 14 trains wrecked, 49 locomotives destroyed, four bridges blown up, ten French quislings executed, between...
...Most Frenchmen were still imprisoned and frustrated within la patrie, but they were united in hatred of the Hun and of collaboration. London reports claimed that 80% of the French people now recognized General Charles de Gaulle as their symbol of resistance. They also recognized that the German drain on their working (and fighting) manpower can be slowed only by French resistance, halted only by a second front. Pending the day of invasion, Frenchmen remembered...
ALGIERS--General Henri Honore Giraud, French African leader, repudiated in the name of France today all laws and decrees imposed on the country since the Armistico, including those providing for racial discrimination, and promised Frenchmen a post-war government of their own choosing under the laws of the Third Republic...
...Frenchmen continued to write to U.S. stations long after the republic fell, and during the last six months they have written more than ever. They say that transmission is perfect when there is no jamming. Recently Nazi-controlled Radio Paris inquired: "Have you listened to the American radio? No, of course not. It is prohibited. But we have listened for you." A detailed analysis of "the delightfully singleminded American radio" followed...