Word: gaullists
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...totally unimpressed Sumner Welles, who called the raid "legitimate" and who three days before had said that the U.S. would recognize Free French New Caledonia. The British seemed quite sure that the sad and sensible people of Occupied France would understand and approve what they had done. De Gaullist circles in London assured them of that. All over France men had died for minute, perilous acts of sabotage that could not have accomplished in years what the British had done in one night...
...Europe food is manipulated as a penal and political weapon, to punish and to bribe. In many places food supplies have been withdrawn or restricted in reprisal for minor infractions of Nazi edicts. When students plastered a French town with De Gaullist placards, meat ration cards were canceled for 40 days. In certain areas marked for German colonization, the Nazis withhold vitamins from the population to foster a slave mentality...
Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...
...North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports on De Gaullist and Cormmunist activities in France, for which he had paid a young Hungarian journalist, now in a Vichy clink, about...
They get a night's lodging, a meal or whatever help they need and go on about the business of organizing sympathizers for an eventual uprising. Few are caught within the country; few Frenchmen want or would dare to turn a De Gaullist in, and thousands of people have cards marked with the Cross of Lorraine concealed somewhere against the coming of a De Gaullist agent. When the De Gaullists try to pass a German-corrupted customs official, some of them are caught. Some of them get out. Some reach Spain and are interned there. Later, if they...