Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order to the staccato tune of German firing squads executing more than 65 French hostages in Rouen, St. Nazaire and Paris, five top members of Vichy's Embassy in Washington headed by Counselor Léon Marchal, saw fit to resign their posts and join the De Gaullist Free French movement...
Free France's vital position in the Allied war effort was outlined by three speakers at a meeting of Harvard's De Gaullist chapter last night, in the Winthrop Junior Common Room. The panel discussion, which was broadcast over the Crimson Network, emphasized the control that Free Frenchmen hold over important places such as Equatorial Africa, and the West Indian islands...
When Pierre Laval came back to power in Vichyfrance last week, the world felt in its bones that the war had taken some great new malevolent turn. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Hitler has brought France back into the war." Cried a De Gaullist spokesman in London: "Think of that flabby hand, that evil lip, that shifty glance, that sneer of the executioner - and tell yourself that for 30 years France has not shed a tear without Laval gaining...
Even before Pétain's decision the U.S. State Department had pretty well discounted the durability of Vichy's neutrality. Answering Pétain's protest over U.S. recognition of the Free French De Gaullist regime in French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons, the U.S. had allowed itself the rare diplomatic luxury of speaking frankly. Said the U.S. note: "(A) handful of Frenchmen ... in contempt for the high tradition of liberty and individual freedom which has made France great, have sordidly and abjectly, under the guise of 'collaboration,' attempted to prostitute their country...
They surprised and overpowered four Italian garrisons, destroyed huge quantities of war matériel, then headed back south with their prisoners. Triumphantly last week they quoted the remark of an Italian prisoner after a similar De Gaullist raid on Kufra last year: "Only those French devils could have done...