Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor episode in French politics was big news for Europe last week: for the first time General Charles de Gaulle and the French Communist Party clashed openly. Strengthened by recognition, the French Government decreed that the Communist-led Patriotic Militia (Milice Patriotique) must surrender its arms. The Patriotic Militia is a group of irregular home guards not connected with the F.F.I. A small group before liberation, the militia has grown rapidly since then...
...which was strongest in the south of France, announced that it was solidly behind the Government. It planned to expand its organization throughout Paris and the provinces, to publish a daily and a weekly paper, to oppose lynchings and private executions of the kind carried out by the Patriotic Militia. Its mottoes: "De Gaulle our President"; "De Gaulle and Order." Most of the Gaullist Cabinet members were reported to have joined the France au Combat group...
...middleclass, nonmilitary family in Hamilton, he learned about war at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Deciding that he could not live on a junior officer's pay and unwilling to cadge from his father, he took a job as an electrical engineer, a commission in the militia, and waited for something to turn...
Three days later, Petain turned up in the small French town of Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
...names of democratic French leaders came back into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...