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...F.F.I.; grabbed the collaborationist Mayor, marched him off with cuffs and kicks to the lockup. From among their neighbors they chose a new Mayor. Thousands of men & women thronged the bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive De Gaulle! But some among them had freed...
...resistance corralled 40 frightened men & women in a cellar, among them some of Joseph Darnand's hated Militia. Some collaborationists killed themselves rather than surrender to their neighbors. In an alley two gendarmes forced a collaborationist to his knees, cocked pistols at his head, made him salute the Tricolor. Nearby another group dragged along an Italian by the hair, made him kneel and shout Vive la France! Then they slugged him on the head, kicked him, spat on him. But he was lucky...
Good Start. Bayeux was hardly touched by the invasion; the Germans got out too fast. In this pleasant tourist town, life is much as it always was, except for the gala display of the Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this...
Across the choppy Channel plowed the French destroyer Combattante, with the Tricolor whipping smartly from her taffrail. From the bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
...last the General appeared, his tall figure towering above everyone, his face taut and set. The bishop and the subprefect greeted him. The townsfolk trailed him to the park. There, bareheaded under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...