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...less dignified machinations were in progress last week. It was far from certain that the trials would proceed to an orderly conclusion, far from certain that life imprisonment would be the severest penalty meted out to the ex-leaders of France. In 1871, after France's previous defeat, Frenchmen vented their feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were...
Lorraine. Both Luxembourg and Alsace were setups compared with the job of introducing the new order to the stubborn Frenchmen of devastated Lorraine. For this reason Hitler entrusted the task to his foremost Anschluss professional, Gauleiter Josef Bürckel who not only engineered the Anschluss of the Saar, but also originated the Nazi annexation formula so successfully employed in Austria. A hefty, beetle-browed Rhinelander dubbed the "Red Gauleiter'' because he has constantly stressed Socialism more than Nationalism, Bürckel informed sullen Lorraine peasants last week that the "Führer principle" had been introduced along...
...death General Charles de Gaulle, for desertion, flight, conspiring with a foreign power, inciting French soldiers to enter service with a foreign power, and engaging in propaganda against France. Safe in his dingy suite of offices on London's Victoria Embankment, where he is trying to rally free Frenchmen to the cause of liberation, General de Gaulle took his death sentence lightly, declared: "I shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after the British victory. I consider this act to be void...
Painful Exigencies. Stirring around in the chaotic confusion that after six weeks of peace still prevailed throughout unoccupied France, Minister for Youth and Family Jean Ybarnegaray attempted last week to extricate French youth. Aping the Nazis, he organized "Youth Groups," his goal being to build strong Frenchmen by sport, work and "directed, clean living while still young ... to prepare youth morally and physically to meet the painful exigencies of existence...
Plundered Larder. On the verboten list last week were placed all the meringue, almond paste and cream cakes dear to the palates of Frenchmen. A drastic shortage of sugar, flour, cream and butter caused the percentage of sweetening in cakes to be reduced to 10% of the contents, and the sale of all pastry to be prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing...