Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgian Government in Exile radioed this message to the homeland: "The Belgian people will positively be liberated this year...
Certain French Interests. The anti-De Gaulle faction in Algiers included an unsavory lot: thousands of ex-Vichyites, many recently "escaped" from the homeland; royalists; big industrialists who had always feared the Republic more than the Nazis; antidemocrats like Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor...
...hard fact is that DeGaullism, as the only uncompromising channel of French resistance, represents the French masses in the homeland and in the Empire. Charles de Gaulle, as its leader, is the only leader who can fairly claim to represent the French people, pending a free election. De Gaullism's basic strength has beaten Robert Murphy before (TIME, June 14). Its pressure last week forced the resignation of Pierre Boisson, the ex-Vichyite Governor General of French West Africa, who had been stubbornly supported by the U.S. If U.S. policy continues to ignore the fact and the strength...
...more than half black-skinned and all trained for mobile, offensive war. In this army many have a stake: the British and Americans who are giving it equipment; the French factions who see it as the dominant factor in the new France; the people of the homeland who look to it for deliverance...
Under a Great V. The committee took time off for homage to French resistance. It was the third anniversary of the day Charles de Gaulle left his defeated homeland, hung up an extra pair of pants and four khaki shirts in a cheap London hotel room, and rallied his stunned countrymen with the words: "France has lost a battle; but France has not lost...