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Scarce clothing coupons have curbed the gypsy love for bright finery; ration books and identity cards their wanderings...
According to Torbie, the Australian troops are among the hardest-hitting fighters in the world, ranking with the United States Marines. "Toughest guys I've ever seen," he says. "While our men can 'get along' on one dinner of K Ration a day, the Aussies eat a can of Bully Beef and think it's a good meal...
...morale of officers, unable to live on their pay, deteriorated equally. They often padded their ration rolls with fictitious names, sold the extra supplies for living expenses...
...rightist Mouvement de Libération Nationale grew out of the union of three Gaullist groups in southern France. Its military organization, the Corps Francs de la Libération, was second in importance only to the Communist-controlled F.T.P. in the F.F.I...
They included some of France's most famous writers : Poet Louis Aragon ("François la Colère") ; François Mauriac ("Forez") ; Livération Editor Claude Morgan ("Mortagne"); Poet Jean Cassou ("Jean Noir"), and (anonymously) Roger Giron, Chief of Cabinet in Premier Reynaud's last Government. Reprinted for Les Editions from smuggled foreign copies were John Steinbeck's Nuits Noires (The Moon Is Down) and exiled Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre...