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...meeting to be conducted from beginning to end in English, was organized by the Harvard unit, together with members of the Radcliffe, Wellesley, Lassell, and Piue Manor chapters. It is one of similar meetings that will take place wherever Free Frenchmen are fighting Nazilsm. As well as the pictures of the invasion of France, the first reel depicting DeGaulle's army, navy, and air force in Great Britain and in the Free French empire, will be released tonight...
...American scholars, who broadcast over short-wave station WRUL, said they were profoundly disturbed" by the news, and expressed deepest sympathy "to the families, to the friends, to the students" of the jailed Frenchmen...
...When two Frenchmen slipped up to the Nazi military commander of Nantes early last week and riddled him with pistol bul lets, the Germans knew exactly what to do. They stationed military patrols around the city, imposed a 14-hour curfew. From Paris General Otto von Stülpnagel, commanding the German Army of Occupation, issued a terse communique. He offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (to be paid by France) for the killers, promised he would execute 50 French hostages if the killers were not arrested in two days...
From Vichy old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain broadcast an appeal to the people of France. In his tired, halting voice he begged: "Frenchmen, your duty is clear -put an end to this butchery. Do not let more evil be done in France." Frenchmen who illegally tuned in the BBC broadcast from London heard an other radio appeal. General Charles de Gaulle asked his countrymen not to kill Germans "in the present circumstances. ..." Instead he asked all Frenchmen to join a general strike, to spend five minutes this Friday in silence and "scornful meditation...
...London and Washington Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt decried these "Nazi butcheries." In Bordeaux and Nantes 100 Frenchmen waited in their cells for death...