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France's greatest holidays-the ninth anniversary of V-E day and the feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send...
Last week, in observance of the ninth anniversary of V-E day, General de Gaulle dramatically appeared, as he had promised he would, at Paris' Arc de Triomphe to pay homage "alone" to France's Unknown Soldier. It was two days after the fall of Dienbienphu, and the worried police made the biggest show of strength since the anti-Ridgway riots in 1952. More than 10,000 steel-helmeted police and armed guards assembled, truckloads of mobile guards blocked every sidestreet, and police aircraft hovered overhead. A full hour before De Gaulle's appearance, a crowd...
...strangely benign twist to the current uncompromising Soviet line, Russia's top World War II military hero, Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, in a Pravda article, indulged himself in praise for two former comrades in arms. Wrote Zhukov, in marking the ninth anniversary of V-E day: "The Soviet people will never forget the selfless struggle waged against the German armed forces by our Allies. We pay our due also to their leaders. General of the Army Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, under whose leadership American and British armed forces repeatedly defeated German fascist troops." Later in his piece, however...
...gist of which was that the Russians could be crushed, after which the combined German armies would sweep the Americans, British and French from the Continent. Kesselring was determined to "hang on" in the West until the "decision in the East" came. Kesselring was still hanging on at V-E...
...grisliest petty tyrants in history were in all likelihood the men and women who ran Germany's infamous concentration and extermination camps for the greater glory of Hitler's Nazi Reich. Within three years after V-E day, 91 of them were tried for a deluge of crimes-in some cases up to 1,000 murders apiece -and then were hanged in the courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced...