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...four Frenchmen alighted from a car before the Alsace-Lorraine memorial. They were: General Charles Huntziger, wearing a khaki field uniform; Air General Jean Marie Joseph Bergeret and Admiral Maurice Athanase Le Luc, both in dark blue; onetime Ambassador to Poland Leon Noel, an old pro-totalitarian, neatly dressed in mufti. The French delegates gave the swastika-draped memorial a brief glance, then marched quickly down the avenue, escorted by three German officers. As they passed, the German guard snapped to attention...
...French delegates entered the car, the German leaders rose, stiff with punctilio. Adolf Hitler gave the Nazi salute to each Frenchman in turn. Göring and Raeder raised their batons. Brauchitsch and Keitel gave the military salute, Hess and Ribbentrop the Nazi salute. The Frenchmen returned military salutes. Then Hitler sat down and nodded...
...tent. Article by article they tried to get concessions from General Keitel, who was courteous but firm. Late in the afternoon of the second day, General Keitel sent word to them that their time was nearly up. General Huntziger sent word back that the French were ready. Once more Frenchmen and Germans faced each other across the green baize table...
...best that Frenchmen could hope for was to be allowed to live in peace in Adolf Hitler's Europe. And in Hitler's Europe France faced an unknown future, blaming for the past, not Hitler, but her own people and leaders who had let slip through their fingers the heritage of Louis...
...Winston Churchill, who earlier in the week had said he would not deal in recriminations because he judged them "utterly futile and even harmful," supported General de Gaulle's stand. The tough old Briton expressed "grief and amazement" at the terms to which Bordeaux submitted. He urged all Frenchmen "outside the power of the enemy" to repudiate the armistice and fight...