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...suggests that women can be most successful at home-or anywhere else-by making the most of their special gifts of "sympathy, kindness and human warmth." Scheinfeld is inclined to agree with the French deputy who, during a debate on the sexes, jumped to his feet and cried enthusiastically: "Vive la différence...
...longer did they simply throw flowers and kisses. They waved arms and flags and flowers; they climbed aboard the cars and jeeps embracing the French and us alike; they uttered a great mass cry of delight that swelled and died down and swelled to a greater height. They cried: "Vive De Gaulle!" and "Vive Leclerc!" But one word repeated over and over rose above all the other words. It was: "Merci! Merci! Merci!" (Thanks! Thanks! Thanks...
...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 Frenchmen's work...
...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...
When the news of D-day reached Lyons, thousands on their way to work danced in the streets, hugged and kissed in Gallic joy, sang La Marseillaise, shouted: "Vive la France! Vive les Allies!" German and Vichy forces dared not interfere just then. Later the police staged a mass roundup...