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Diplomatic Courtesy. In Paris, Frenchmen are tipping their hats as the subway trains stop at George V station...
...waters as they sailed past Britain's fortress. As the convoy entered the Mediterranean the British gave chase but did not open fire. Presently the screech of projectiles began, not from the Vichy destroyer but from coastal batteries in French Algeria. Were they manned by Nazis or by Frenchmen? The British could not be sure, but their ships opened up and shelled the shore batteries. The French convoy put on speed and ducked into Nemours in Algeria. As the British ships put back toward Gibraltar they were bombed by French war planes...
...colonies and in neutral countries Frenchmen are divided into many groups, of which at least four are significant: those who are pro-Vichy; those who are pro-De Gaulle; those who are more extreme than De Gaulle and who believe in the revolutionary character of the war against Hitler; those who, because their people at home are suffering, would help them even at the cost of nullifying the British blockade. Nowhere has this division of Frenchmen caused such a division of public opinion as it has among U. S. citizens...
...last week this emotional reaction had mostly spent itself. But U. S. citizens were still confused about France. Well they might be, for they, like the Frenchmen who had come to live among them, were being pulled this way & that by French pressure groups. One group told them that to help France was to help Germany. Another group said...
Pressure for more relief will undoubtedly increase. With it will increase pressure for relaxation of the British blockade. This is what the Ambassador wants. But many Frenchmen in the U. S. are convinced that, whatever the consequences, to win the war Britain must maintain an airtight blockade. This, they say, is the real reason why U. S. citizens should distrust Ambassador Henry-Haye...