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...would probably put up bumbling, hard-boiled Andre Marty of Spanish Civil War notoriety as the front man. The government, which had already jailed scores of Stalinists amid general applause, went on a hunt for big game. Pinay's men said that they raided Communist centers in Brest, Lorient and Bordeaux, and announced that they had broken an espionage case at Toulon...
...France, some time later, Winston Churchill arrived for a conference at SHAEF Forward Camp, tried to argue Eisenhower into shifting the scheduled amphibious attack against Southern France to the still-occupied ports of Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire. Writes Butcher: "Ike said no, continued saying no all afternoon, and ended saying no in every form of the English language at his command...
Finesse & Secrets. Britons and Americans had little trouble. Some surrendering Germans indulged in last small gestures of arrogance, then were docile enough. In the Aegean Islands 17,000 Axis troops were handed over to a British brigadier. At the French ports of Dunkirk, Lorient, La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire (see RADIO), hundreds of miles behind the last fighting fronts, some 75,000 Germans downed arms. In one area north of Hamburg where 300 SS marines stubbornly holed up in a forest to fight on, the British with exquisite finesse declared the area out of bounds for Britons, and ordered Wehrmacht...
None of this would be easy. There was every indication that the Germans would try to hold Königsberg, Elbing, Danzig, Gdynia from the Russians-as they were denying Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Bordeaux to the Allies in the west...
...last week (see below), but for two months they had stood off the British and Canadians on its approaches. They had ruined Le Havre, Marseille, Salonika. Hundreds of miles behind the main battle line, they still had no less than 100,000 troops in Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Lorient, the Channel Islands, and Royan (covering Bordeaux). Where German soil was threatened, they fought like wildcats...