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...france toward the New Order made ready to go through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...
...verse cut out: What does this band of slaves want, These traitors, these plotting kings? For whom are these infamous tortures, These chains prepared so long ago? These chains prepared so long ago? Frenchmen! Oh, what an outrage for us! What violent feelings this ought to arouse! We are the ones they dare to think of returning to slavery...
...sent home in exchange. Recruiting stations for workers advertised higher wages in Germany. But Pierre Laval was not depending on volunteers. He was also shutting down French plants not essential to the German war effort, thus pressing French workers into German cities scheduled for bombing by the R.A.F. Frenchmen were thus given the choice of: 1) risking their lives working for Germany; 2) starving...
...bitter defeat, went on. In the Marine Ministry and dozens of other ancient Parisian structures Nazi vultures flapped about their task of feeding on the body of France. Nazi troops were forming ranks for their regular noontime parade from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs-Elysées. Frenchmen impassively performed their daily routine...
...still be that Billy Mitchell was wrong in his final estimate of the power of the military airplane. But he has been devastatingly right so far. In the greatest upset in warfare since Frenchmen first routed Britons with artillery (at the battle of Formigny in 1450) he had picked in advance the winner of every round...