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...small differences of ideas." To Darlan, who still maintains the fiction of acting for Marshal Petain in France, there came messages of support from a scattering of French colonies. A message from Boisson's own West African native group, the Legion of Black Africa, ended with the salutation: "Vive le Marechal [Petain], Vive la France...
...Roosevelt's voice went by short-wave transcription to the people of France and French Africa. In slow, schoolboy French (starting with the inevitable Mes Amis) he said: "We come among you to repulse the cruel invaders. . . . Have faith in our words. . . . Help us where you are able. . . . Vive la France éternelle...
...British War Office released some information last week which had given it an acute case of the shakes. Recently two members of the British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others...
...Vive De Gaulle!" Like a voice in a dream the cry rang up the Quai de la Roncière. Sleepy St. Pierrais tumbled out of their steep-roofed plaster houses: women in shawls and white petticoats, fishermen pulling striped shirts over their tousled heads, hastily tying their crimson sashes. Geese honked. Dogs barked. From windows suddenly fluttered homemade De Gaulle flags...
...Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds on the pier cried "Vive De Gaulle" as De Bournat passed. "Vive Pétain" he said...