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...Herriot interned at his estate near Lyon. To Lyon, which Edouard Herriot had served 36 years as Mayor, the police looked like a guard of honor. When Berlin reported later that M. Herriot had been sent to a concentration camp at Vals-les-Bains, Vichy did not confirm it. Frenchmen hoped it was not true, felt that Vichy would not dare...
...same reason that Edouard Herriot would not promise not to leave France, other Frenchmen would not promise to leave...
...since 1920, Yenching began a new semester-in Free China's Chengtu, 2,000 miles from its old campus. The new Yenching, though it had lost its President, had many of the same faculty and students, the same standards of untrammeled scholarship. Educated Chinese were as elated as Frenchmen would have been if the Sorbonne had reopened on the Free French island of St. Pierre...
...knew that all France's workers could not sate Hitler's rapacious appetite. If Hitler won, Laval would probably disappear, like Austria's Schuschnigg, in favor of a German Gauleiter. If the Allies won, Laval could expect to be hanged at least, possibly drawn & quartered by Frenchmen...
Greasy, thick-lipped Pierre Laval went home and sought solace in music. He turned on his radio and heard in idiomatic French: "Frenchmen! Take up arms against the invaders and light the fuse of revolt. Ici Moscou. Ici Moscou." He spun the dial nervously and heard London's Fighting French station saying: "Frenchmen, Wait!" He felt better, but not much...