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There was a further grave question that took the situation deep: What of General Charles de Gaulle, and his legions of Frenchmen who had worked and fought for freedom since June 1940? The U.S. State Department had been consistently sniffish and standoffish toward them; were they still to be ignored...
With the First were mobile U.S. units, Fighting French. Ahead of them, some 30,000 Giraud-Frenchmen, ill equipped as they were, carried on savage, widespread guerrilla warfare against Axis outposts and Nehring's reconnoitering troops, hampering their movement, forcing them back into the circle around Bizerte...
...course like a weathervane, finally succumbed in impotence when German armies, at Hitler's command, swept through Unoccupied France in a 24-hour dash to the Mediterranean.* From Vichy's radio, now fully under German control, came repeated repudiations of everything Darlan did and the injunction to Frenchmen to obey only Pétain's orders...
...collapse of the Third Republic disgusted great numbers of Frenchmen with parliamentary government. The miseries suffered under Vichy did the same thing for Fascist totalitarianism. French willingness to give limited monarchy another opportunity, therefore, may have greatly increased...
...small fishing village in German-occupied Brittany, German N.C.O. Hans Holle returned late at night from a visit to a French trull. Impudently he waved a black cotton stocking at Frenchmen he met on the dark roads. Next morning Gay Dog Hans was found dead, a bullet in his stomach...