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Thousands of Frenchmen, he noted, have been forcibly transferred to the Ruhr, to be replaced by German workers who hope to be safe in French factories, and large amounts of war material, he emphasized, are being manufactured in German occupied French factories...
...interchanging mourners at the cemetery he had been smuggling Frenchmen back & forth across the "border," had gained fame throughout all France, had even handled mass movements by arranging particularly magnificent funerals. All this he had done for the pleasure it gave him and, of course, a small...
France was in pain. Cold and the want of food and fuel were painful. And if millions of Frenchmen were anguished by collaboration with Germany, so was collaborating Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. He virtually begged Germany for mercy...
...State Department trembled last week for fear that the still great fleet of Vichyfrance would be handed over to the Axis. And all its fears were occasioned because a handful of Frenchmen who despise Vichy and all its works had landed in very Gallic fashion on the little American islands, St. Pierre & Miquelon...
Wetting agents now touch upon almost every aspect of life from obstetrics, where they are used as germicides, to undertaking, where they make embalming fluids more penetrating. Synthetic detergents-non-soaps with the cleansing properties of soaps-were first produced in the laboratory by the Frenchmen Dumas and Peligot in 1836. They began their concoctions with fatty alcohols extracted from whale oil, but the product was too costly to compete with that age-old detergent, soap. During World War I, when fats for soapmaking were scarce, German chemists again tried in earnest to concoct soapless soaps. Real success...