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...Admiral Robert agrees and signs, all New World Frenchmen become a brand-new third kind of Frenchmen. Completely isolated from Europe, they will not be Vichyfrench, nor will they be Free French. This means a division of the French Empire into three main parts, not two. Just as unhappy as Laval was General de Gaulle, who was left out in the cold...
...shrewdest aspects of the maneuver was its propagandistic effect. Once again, in plainest terms, the U.S. had informed the people of France that Pierre Laval could not be trusted; that he was an Axis tool; that Americans would help Frenchmen anywhere under any circumstances except when they willingly give outright aid to Hitler...
...cobblestoned courtyard outside Paris the Nazis lined up 50 French hostages. The firing squads squeezed their triggers, and the Frenchmen sagged to the stones. Presently their bloody, bullet-torn bodies were dumped into horse carts and hauled away...
That the movement which De Gaulle leads is purely a political venture was highly disputed by Brunschwig, "We are nothing but a group of men, Frenchmen, trying to keep up the fight. France has lost a battle...
...farcical vain to prove at the discontinued Riom war-guilt trial, was that France-far from having been sabotaged by stupid militarists and demagogues of his own changeable colorations -had been "be trayed" by democratic leaders. A bomb tossed at him on April 20 had missed its mark. Frenchmen read into his Bayonne speech not only The Great's reply to the bombing but a new bid for power...