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...Assembly invested the Chamber of Deputies with extensive powers, enabling it to overturn the Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave the President, with the Senate approval, the right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies), Frenchmen made it work for 65 years, based on it their proverb: Only the provisional is lasting...
Gauleiter Prospects. Meanwhile 40,000,000 Frenchmen locked in Hitler's embrace might, for all the rest of the earth knew of their feelings and their fate, have been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from...
Aftermath of Defeat. For all but a few very old Frenchmen defeat was a new experience, and in a bewildered frame of mind they began to deal with today's problems while scarcely daring to think of tomorrow's. Paris-soir and a few other newspapers reappeared in abbreviated form, their editorials consisting of recriminations against the late leaders of France or don't-let-it-get-you-down advice and encouragement. German officials anxious to get refugees back home in time to take care of the harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers...
...week ended in London, Great Britain formally recognized long-nosed General Charles de Gaulle, with his London recruiting committee, as "the leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be, who rally to him in support of the Allied cause." But the British Foreign Office hedged when the General appeared to be shy of supporters. To recognize his group as France's government while the U.S. recognized Petain's regime, would have been embarrassing indeed...
...French Near East Army in Syria, Frenchmen in Indo-China, threatened by Japan (see p. 28}, in Shanghai, in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies, St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, Chandernagor in India-large groups and tiny minorities alike-declared they would fight on beside Britain...