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...something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...Many Frenchmen, who had stomached the idea of Marshal Pétain as a possible savior of France, vomited all hope for Vichy when Pierre Laval took over...
Free France's vital position in the Allied war effort was outlined by three speakers at a meeting of Harvard's De Gaullist chapter last night, in the Winthrop Junior Common Room. The panel discussion, which was broadcast over the Crimson Network, emphasized the control that Free Frenchmen hold over important places such as Equatorial Africa, and the West Indian islands...
Moreover, from the German viewpoint, he was overly tender about the feelings of Frenchmen. He would not shoot them, no matter what their crimes against totalitarian progress. He even pardoned (with life imprisonment) zealous young Paul Collette, who last summer pumped bullets into the chest of Pierre Laval...
...Frenchmen kept rebelling. Besides slowdown sabotage, it was estimated last fortnight that since the fall of France 74 steel foundries had been violently sabotaged, 18,000 trucks loaded with war materials destroyed, 30 ammunition dumps blown up and 184 trains derailed. Last week another German troop train was derailed, killing 44. Two grenades wrapped in newspapers were hurled into the Nazis' Paris headquarters. In a Rennes theater this week, when Jacques Doriot, rabid collaborationist and good Laval friend, got up to address a meeting, someone in the balcony threw a bomb which exploded harmlessly in the orchestra...