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...this was bad news for De Gaullist Frenchmen and for all those Frenchmen, in and out of France, who want Great Britain to win the war and France to help her to do so. In New York General de Gaulle's political representative, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, announced that the General would not recognize any infringement on French territory consented to by Vichy. In Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, De Gaullist General Edgard René Marie de Larminat accused Vichy of allowing the Germans to disorganize French North African possessions, declared that French aircraft factories were making war planes for Germany...
Many Frances. Pundits have said that there are now three Frances: Occupied France, Unoccupied France and the "Free France" of General de Gaulle. It is not so simple as that. Through sentiment, self-interest and necessity Frenchmen have become so divided among themselves that to be a Frenchman is to be the victim of many contradictions and confusions. For example...
...that time Jimmy Walker was loafing in Cannes with his favorite girl friend, curvaceous Betty Compton, dancer (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen). They had become friends five years before, when wisecracking, dandified, vote-getting Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were...
...seen. Those affairs exposed the marrow of British power. One summer evening at Abukir Bay, after a maddening two months' search in which his fleet had been without benefit of speedy frigates for scouting, Nelson with his 14 ships of the line came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down both sides of the badly arranged enemy, the British overcame one vessel at a time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with...
...Collingwood, the other by Nelson himself aboard his 100-gun flagship Victory. Nelson flashed his famous signal: "England expects every man to do his duty." Collingwood struck the enemy's rear, Nelson the centre. The British lost no ships, in the end captured or destroyed 22 of the Frenchmen. Nelson himself was mortally wounded just as victory was in his grasp. In the arms of his flag-captain, Thomas Hardy, Nelson said, "Thank God I have done my duty," and died...