Word: frenchmen
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...flag is the Cross of Lorraine, red, with two horizontal bars on a white field. Motto of De Gaulle's "Free Frenchmen": Honor & Country, Valor & Discipline. *Germany estimated the Allied bill for upkeep of their 1918-30 Armies of Occupation...
...Africa, where French West and Equatorial Africa had already gone over to De Gaulle, Morocco was in a state of revolt. Hundreds of Frenchmen were arrested by the Vichy-controlled Government, which still kept a shaky hand on the situation. Eighteen French airplanes were flown to Gibraltar by their rebellious crews...
...every day, as was the prosecution's chief witness, appeaser and onetime Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. Whether or not the Riom defendants were found guilty of starting the war, the question was: Could they be saddled with the blame for it before the Germans pinned it on all Frenchmen...
...before Japan could actually move in and take it, Oriental propriety demanded a righteous motive. It came last week when ousted Governor General Georges Catroux led important units of the Indo-Chinese colonial forces to the standard of General Charles de Gaulle, self-styled Commander of Free Frenchmen...
...that severed the Empire from France, politically and economically, Great Britain sat down to wait for pressure to produce results. Last week they came in a rush as colony after colony forsook the Vichy Government for the defiant banner of General Charles de Gaulle, self-appointed leader of "free Frenchmen...