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...Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free French cause, leading with him some of his wiry Circassian cavalrymen...
...week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden appealed to the French people over the heads of Vichy, gave them the somewhat belated warning that if Vichy assisted in Germany's war, Britain-would feel free to attack the Unoccupied as well as the Occupied Zone. But it seemed likely that Frenchmen in general would have been disgusted, if not downright nauseated, by any large appeal, British or French...
...publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today must necessarily do, but it also signaled its full intent to collaborate with the Nazis in forming a New European Order. The world over, democratic Frenchmen felt that at last they knew the full extent to which the great French democratic tradition had been abandoned by the men of Vichy...
...evening the aged voice of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain crackled for two brief minutes out of the little radio cabinets in French parlors and shops: Frenchmen: You have learned that Admiral Dorian recently conferred with Chancellor Hitler. I had approved this meeting in principle. The new interview Permits us to light up the road into the future and to continue the conversations that had been begun with the German Government. It is no longer a question today of public opinion, often uneasy and badly informed, being able to estimate the chances we are taking or measure the risks...
...many loyal but tired Frenchmen last week the springs and parks and ornamental villas of Vichy seemed more forlorn than ever. For out of Vichy, after weeks of rumor, came the most striking signs yet of French "collaboration" with Adolf Hitler, and suspicion sped through France that if Marshal Petain was still doggedly trying to pick up the French pieces, his aged fingers were now only fumbling...