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Saxons fought Anglo-Saxons and destroyed the monuments their cultures had built. Off the coast of Africa, Frenchmen fought Frenchmen and their former allies, the British. In Indo-China Frenchmen fought their conqueror's allies, the Japanese. In China, yellow men fought yellow men, even as white men fought white men in Europe and black men fought black men-on white men's orders -in Africa...
There is no Zola to describe The Debacle of 1940. But the eyewitness reports have already begun. Four important books now report how Norway was seized, why Holland fell, why France folded. One is by a Norwegian (Carl J. Hambro). Two are by Frenchmen (Andr Maurois, André Simone). One is by a U. S. woman (Clare Boothe...
This week General Charles de Gaulle and his Free Frenchmen went into action against "Free" (unoccupied) France. Quite a bit was at stake. Theirs was the first real test of the Frenchmen's revolt against France. If it succeeded, the whole French Empire might swing in line with London rather than with Berlin. Furthermore, there was an immediate stake: six pro-German French warships...
...Gustave Gamelin, who believed in the Maginot Line. Wording of the indictments was not divulged, because part of the seven-man court itself examines evidence and brings or dismisses charges, and presumably the evidence against Daladier and Gamelin had not been digested. But it meant that with seven big Frenchmen either under indictment or lock & key, the trial was getting well under...
...been asked for former Air Minister Pierre Cot and for Guy La Chambre, who succeeded him. Peppery little M. Cot was still "somewhere in the United States."* M. La Chambre, at least outwardly unconcerned, by week's end had gone to Riom to face trial. Shocking to Frenchmen who have for years been taxed to the eyes for armaments was the lack of planes when war broke loose. In returning from the U. S., M. La Chambre either believed he could shift the blame on his predecessors or was making a gallant gesture...