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...pretend to be a government. To General de Gaulle and his brave, fanatical followers Free France is the trustee of the French Republic, and one day, he hopes and believes, it will return France to the representatives of its people. Meanwhile his task is to fight to free Frenchmen and French subjects from Nazi and Vichy fascism...
Bastille Day passed in France this week without a single parade by Frenchmen. Plans for a parade in Paris were canceled by the Germans, who five days earlier had staged an impressive parade of their own, down the Champs-Elysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde through a double line of stone-silent onlookers. Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had ordered those of his countrymen whom he governs to observe France's onetime No. 1 holiday as a day "without labor" devoted to thinking of "our dead...
...omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...
...first eight days of the British-Free French drive for Vichy-held Syria were a weird combination of Blitz and bicker, glad-handing and heavy punching, pushover and furious resistance. Australian bayonets were sheathed; Royal Navy guns blasted. Opposing Frenchmen kissed or killed each other. There was both soundtruck and aerial bombardment. But at week's end General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the mixed show's producer, could look at his opening week with some satisfaction...
While Free Frenchmen fought Vichy Frenchmen in Syria last week (see p. 21), in Vichy two of the most potent Vichy Frenchmen disagreed. If the disagreement did not prove that there was any slackening of Vichy's collaboration with the Nazis, it at least proved that the men of Vichy could still violently differ about degrees and methods of collaboration, that Adolf Hitler had not managed to force them all into one goose-stepping mold...