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April 14, 1941.
HOW WILL HITLER FALL? SECOND
The Second French Revolution
By George Slocombe
(THE FAMous foreign correspONDENT)
THERE have, of course, been political upheavals which follow Tavern volutions in the military unsters?
long, tumultuous history of France. But by the French Revolution we usually mean the Revolution of 1789.
That revolution cut through history as with a knife. It separated the age of dawning 'démocracy from the age of de- caying despotism.
Until now it has been the greatest landmark in the life of France and perhaps in the life of the western world.
Until now, because an even greater landmark will be created by the second French Revolution -the Revolution of 194-,
For how is it possible to con- ceive of the liberation of France from Nazi occupation, except as the prelude, or the sequel, to re- volution?
History's Wheels
We do not yet fully realise the extent of the political re- volution wrought by Petain. He thinks in terms of Louis the Fourteenth-a Sun King without the sun. "I am the State!"
He has abolished the famous device of the first Revolution- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
He has abolished Parliament, the Republic, the elected Presi- dent, the trade unions. If France had ever voted women's suffrage, he would have abo- lished that.
"This courageous and sincere soldier"--General de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces. Ho is seen here leaving his headquarters in London with his aides.
He governs, not by legislative regions and the richest part of her Weygand, the lieutenant and heir of
agricultural lands are occupied by Foch. but decree. And the Germans. enactment,
He has risked his career, and has the preamble to every decree be Two million troops are stationed been condemned to death. gins with the once-royal "We" there.
Ho has been sneered at by his All the Channel and Atlantic ports, seniors as a visionary, as an oppor We, Philippe Henri Petain."
aerodromes, canals and roads, Paris, tunist, a headstrong adventurer-and He has not yet restored the Rouen, Le Havre, Brest, Nantes, the men who derided him in 1933, Tours, Orleans, Bordeaux, Lille, when he outlined the system of monarchy, but in substance the Strasbourg are in enemy hands. mechanised strategy which the Ger- - monarchy is there.
The first atlitude of the Germans mans afterwards adopted against
deliberately concillatory, The France, have been among his hitter-· Petain's attitude towards the invaders were polite, compassionate, cat critics. Do we seriously believe that legitimists, the Ilouse of Guise, friendly. when this nightmare interlude of la not yet clear. It may be that blamed their defeat on the perfidi-
the They pitled French. They defeat and humiliation is over, of Admiral Horthy, in Hungary, ous British. the wheels of French history can towards the Habsburga. Or it. But they could not conceal their
Most dangerous of all De Gaulle's adversaries, because most subtle, 'are be turned back like the hands of
may be that of Hitler towards greed for plunder. a clock?
the Hohenzollerns,
They despoiled the French trades- those who accuse him of reactionary men with arrogance and avidity, pay- tendencies.
He is an aristocrat, they say. He Ing for their extravagant purchases
is a clerical. He wants to restore in worthless marks.
regime in Franco-as if the the old old regime has not already been restored by Patain!
The facts are
Under The Heel
-To-day's Garibaldi
Can France wake up one fine
In the meanwhile, he has es. morning and find again, func- tablished a Fuehrer State, and tioning normally, that strange Petain is the Fuchrer.. jumble of political groups and
the Since democracy has been
are that De Gaulle, is the parties which made up
And with characteristic German son of a poorly paid professor at a Chamber of Deputies before abolished in France by what is
really a counter-revolution, and thoroughness they took possession of small French university. He has June, 19407.
never had political ambitions, In that Chamber were Royal- by the very elements responsible every organism of French life.
They controlled newspapers and He rose. In the army by sheer in- ists, right wing Conservatives, for France's defeat and sur- radio stations, theatres and music-dustry and intelligence, and his lack interests was a a hindrance left wing Conservatives, right render, it cannot be restored halls, food rationing, and even civilian of
ther-than-an-advantage.-- wing Radicals, left wing Ra- Without a second revolution.
WAR'S NEW TEMPO ·
THE war has assumed a quickened tempo. during the past fortnight, and quite a num- ber of factors are pointing to a decisive showdown
ere the summer is fully upon Europe: The conflict in the Balkans is more than diversion.
a
The ferocity of the fighting and the number of men being used by both sides means that the out- come of the struggle in Greece and Yugo-Slavia must have an important bearing-on-the-future- progress of the war. The Axis offensive in Cirenaica is also something more than a diver- sion, and it may well be that this coming week will see the start of a battle upon which hinges the fate of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Thirdly, there
Can the transition from ab- is the battle of the Atlantic, the
solutism (as personified by the. importance of which Mr Chur-aged Marshal Petain) to demo-
chill continues to insist upon.
The sum effect of these three actions must, of necessity, make a decisive contribution to the final reckoning, In each of these three battlefields, Britain and her allies are, at the mo ment, on the defensive; but it will not always be this way. So long aa the defensive positions can be held intact, the vital counter-attack which will even- tually win the conflict is inevi table. Time it may and will take to accomplish; enormous preparations are still necessary; in the meantime on two land fronts we can take heavy toll of the enemy, while countering her blows to our shipping with in- creased convoys and new anti-' submarine weapons,
The military situation at the present is fraught with tre mendous possibilities, and anxi- ous days there must be ahead; courage and confidence will be more and more needed; but let It be recognised that for us the, fight is only just starting. The British Bulldog is fast getting. his grip from which he never re- laxes until the fight is over and the victory won,
During the weekend the world has celebrated the Christian festival of Eastertide, which has its symbolic message of hópo and faith in the ultimate.fine Boss of humanity; the same symbol bearing the same message can surely be found in the great fight which the “do- mocratic nations of the world are to-day waging &against the forces of diabolical evil,
dicals, Socialists who were not How It Can Come
quite so Socialistic as they once were (Some of whom have since become Fascists), Socialists who achieved?" How is
were still Socialists, and at the extreme left of the semi-circle, the Communists.
"I Am The State"
.
to that revolution
road
suborning
dtraffe They sent shiploads of pictures, He is a shy man, with a cold, wine, brandy, silks and other valuable rational mind and a warm, impulsive French merchandise to North and heart. South America (some to fall into the He is a strange combination of be hands of our blockade patrols). practical military scientist, and im-
They sent trainloads and lorry- aginative historian. Here are two of the possible loads of private plunder to Germany, He is not interested in 'what form answers:
to be shared by army officers and the future of France will take, ex- A spontaneous rising of the Nazi bosses,
cept to free it from the domination French people against their Nazi Also they carried on the subtle of Hitler. He sees his mission as oppressors, feebly, resisted by the game of discrediting, bribing, black- that of a soldier and a liberator. Government in Vichy.
Ho the Garibaldi of this march' the political mailing and Or the collapse of Germany as leaders in France, which they had of the patriots to deliver their coun- the result of a series of British begun long before Munich.
try from the invader. He is not a and allied victories, air bombard-
They backed Laval, but tried to Mazzini. menta, sea baities and revolution- undermine him. They encouraged De Gaulle commands a small but ary risings in other occupied ter- the new French Fascists--the ex- highly mechanised force of French- ritories.
Communist Dorlot, the ex-Socialist men,, Some of them are in this Consider the first possibility. Deat, the ex-Radical Bergery-to de- country, some. Aghting with us. In Two-thirds of France, two-thirds
Potain, to sneer at Vichy, to pre- Libya, some in Equatorial Africa. pare the way for D thorough-
He also commands a growing air going. Nazi revolution..
force, equipped with the most mo- dern British and American machines. And a very useful fleet of cruisers, destroyers and submarines,
cracy be accomplished without the violence' which has accom- panied almost all political up. heavals in France, and especially of her coastline, all her Industrial
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"pronoun
Changed Spirit
In the first few months of their occupation, they seemed to be suc ceeding. France, defeated, humiliated dispirited, with a heavily censored Press and radio, belleved that Britain was also finished, and fatalistically resigned herself to the inevitable.
But the inevitable did not happen. The Air Force saved Britain. The Greeks showed them what would have happened to Italy France had not gone out of the war.
His mission has already been highly successful,
In
there were no De Gaulle London, no De Gaulle army in Africa, could Petain have resisted the demands of Hitler hitherto, could Weygand have kept the Germans and Italians out Africa?
+
It Has Begun
-
The British Navy showed them. The second possibility is that the And finally the Army of the Nile revolution in France will come not wept Mussolini out of Egypt. before, but after, the collapse of
France began to recover her Hitlerism. Or it may coincide will
with spirit. She began to listen to the It. B.B.C. broadcasts,
the the breakdown of the German And at the same time she begon milltary machine, in
to
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WON..Bud- note the discouragement of Ger- den, but it had been preceded by many's invasion troops on the coast, ominous rumblings and premonitions. the effectiveness of British bombing. The Reichswehr in 1941 suffers
The seeds of a spontaneous rising from tho weakness which are, therefore being sown, and in fer- brought the Italian armies to dis- tile ground. But it is too early toaster in Albania - and place our hopes, for all that, in an anti-Geman Insurrection.
has
Africa, Ita
political
The French are too completely dis- Its prestige is subordinate armed. Their oppressors aro too of the Nazis.
sale to that
powerful. The risks are-as yet too. When the political bosses start to
great.
Free France Leader
run the docile soldiers will be lost.
Long before the collapse of "the Ruman Empire, the distant outposts In Gaul and Britain knew that "the
set in, that Rome was con of
rot had demned, that
machine This courageous and sincere sol, had broken down, imperial m dier has had to fight not only the opportunity and took their freedom, long-subject races solzed their Germans He has also had to fight And Gaul a still Gaul, if Rome is
Then consider the chances General De Gaulle,
the French-only a `amall number his Inntrer. Howev
Frenchmen li, is true, but they hap
Ipen to be. power in
of
However the
of France France to-day comes the second French Révolu
They are the men who sold
| guilty men who betrayed'
already, beginning the
France the frightened, (ervistic, tions not only: inevitable fit. is a
It is not easy for a young-KeneralesTOMORROWED
lo renounce such relebrated:
is Pétain, the Hero of Verdi