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...sentence TIME quoted was 90 words but some misimpression may have been given. In addition to asking whether the young men of the U.S. could hold their heads erect if they lived in peace while Britons and Frenchmen were fighting, Mr. Harbison also declared emphatically that he did not want the war to continue...
...151st anniversary of Bastille Day, it was a solemn hour for lovers of freedom, especially in the U. S. Although the Declaration of Independence was written 13 years before the Bastille fell, the American and French Revolutions had the same ideological roots, and in the minds of Americans and Frenchmen alike the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité evoked the same ideals as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For a century and a quarter the U. S. and France watched those ideals spread across most of the world. For the last few terribly quick years, together they...
...Government soon began to show its character. In a series of decrees Chief of State Pétain barred all non-Frenchmen (i.e., Jews) from holding Government positions, "invited" industry to send employed farmers back to their fields and to create collective organizations for housing and feeding workers, spoke of pegging the franc to the dollar instead of the pound (43 to the dollar).* Said...
...Price. Frenchmen now had to pay for their lack of vigilance, generosity, courage; for electing politicians who traded their principles to maintain themselves in power. Frenchmen last week knew that Marshal Pétain was a figurehead, that their real leader was Pierre Laval, one man who thought he could have saved France from Hitler-if France had been willing to pay his price...
...Frenchmen on the captured ships were given their choice of enlisting under the British colors at British pay (38? per day), or of being sent home. Thousands signed up at once, many asking British citizenship as well as service...