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When spring came, Hélion was transferred to a prison ship, anchored in the harbor of Stettin. Seven hundred and fifty Frenchmen were lodged in the ship's holds and farmed out to local factories. But their real lives began at night when the great doors of the holds had clanged shut on them. Then the prisoners crept out of their bunks to dark corners where, with light provided by stolen electrical equipment (salvaged from the wreckage of R.A.F. bombings in the neighborhood), they set up "clubhouses . . . based on a unique interest...
...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...Giraud on the night of the invasion of Sicily (at which, among nonmilitary guests, was Secretary of State Cordell Hull), Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
...possible recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation (of which Generals Giraud and De Gaulle are co-chairmen), the President said: there is, at the present time, no France, except for the five percent outside France. He would have a hard time erasing that sentence from Frenchmen's minds...
People sought a reason. Why is the President so set against De Gaulle? Why all the inspired anti-De Gaulle stories? No matter how unlovable a personality, De Gaulle is still, to most living Frenchmen, the symbol of French resistance. What is the President's case against...