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...week that a full 90% of the French people were sick of collaboration with Germany. They had had both provocation and inspiration. There had been the ascendancy of the hated Pierre Laval in Vichy and the flashing British Commando raid on St.-Nazaire. The Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were not enough, the buffoon Mussolini joined the chorus, asking, as Italy...
...conferred with Petain and Laval, was rumored to have seen German officials, pledged allegiance to Petain, promised not to aid De Gaulle. Last week the aging escapist was reported to have offered to surrender, in return for release of 500,000 Frenchmen imprisoned in Germany. Since Frenchmen are a burden to Germany as prisoners and could be a boon as laborers for Laval, this looked as if it might be a very pretty answer to a very curious affair...
Anti-Fascist Frenchmen were not long in replying. Next day the 450-foot aerial masts of Radio Paris, 130 miles south of the capital near Bourges, were dynamited. For the first time since Hitler took Paris, the principal outlet of Nazi radio propaganda in France went dead. To many a Frenchman, St. Joan seemed by that act a little more alive...
...cold-blooded recognition of the fact that Parliamentarianism is not a French idea, and that government by a score of parties without a strong executive is impossible. These observations may be sound political theory, but the reader is left in doubt as to the possibility of their acceptance by Frenchmen inured to the traditions of the Third Republic...
During the week, between 150 and 200 Frenchmen were shot. The Nazi executioners were trying hard to quench the fever of revolt which was rising ever higher in France. Last week trains loaded with Nazi troops and materiel were derailed, Nazi soldiers were assassinated. To seething, rebellious Paris, Adolf Hitler sent his chief executioner, lean, cold Reinhard Heydrich, whose name has become a horrid byword wherever hostages' eyes are bandaged and their arms bound...