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...Nazi French men, echoed the Marshal's words: "France must be dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman Joseph Darnand, Minister of Labor Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot...
...White House, said: "It may be D-day but it looks just like any other morning to me." Two days earlier the U.S. had received a false invasion flash from the Associated Press's London office, sent by an inexperienced girl teletype operator. Now, in Redding, Calif., a policeman echoed the sentiments of many citizens when he said: "That girl wasn't far off, was she?" Awakened by a New York Post reporter at her West Point hotel, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower exclaimed : "The invasion? What about the invasion? Why hasn't someone told...
When a bystander asked "What's going on?" a policeman replied, "These kids are going to beat up those niggers." But the advancing column hesitated, began to fall back. Soon patrol cars of the metropolitan district police arrived and helped break the mob into smaller groups. A few "dele gates" fired a salvo of rocks, breaking a police car window. Small squads raced through back alleys hunting for Negroes. By morning, Cambridge had subsided into uneasy peace...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
Beaufort Swancutt, an infantry officer with a disordered, unstable record that had somehow escaped the notice of the Army, had committed one of the most inexplicable crimes in the service's modern history. At Camp Anza he had killed two 19-year-old girls, his captain and a policeman in a wild shooting rampage that had begun while he was sitting at a table drinking beer...