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...city which had previously been bombarded by the Germans was again bombarded by the French under Marshal MacMahon. Venerated by Socialists as the first workers' republic in history, the ill-fated Commune lasted until Thiers' troops conquered the city on May 29. As unpopular with their fellow Frenchmen as so many fifth columnists are today, thousands of Communards were killed. Before peace was made, Bismarck had William I proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles...
...their old military tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...
...over & over repeated the news that Adolf Hitler had received, through Spain's Francisco Franco, Marshal Pétain 's offer to surrender. But in the Champagne country of France, where the yellow dust raised by men and machines lay thick on the trampled vines, Germans and Frenchmen still slaughtered one another. Adolf Hitler ordered no armistice, Pétain no unconditional surrender...
France, resigned to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, probably a part of Flanders and most of her colonial empire, hoped only that her people would be allowed to live as Frenchmen in the rest of their well-loved country. But suppose Hitler were generous at Munich? Munich was still Munich...
...Frenchmen, the ultimate ideal of France is a transcendent thing. As this desperate week began, Paul Reynaud the Leader faced the Italian declaration of war with the sentence: "Nothing has lowered our will to struggle for our land and liberty." At the same time, Paul Reynaud the Frenchman said: "France cannot...