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To: epsteinbd who wrote (1736)	1/5/2003 2:48:46 PM
From: Hands Off	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Hi epsteinbd, So, in your opinion, what did de Gaulle mean by the statement? At my micro level I just don't see the French working together in a team environment. That is why I read the Jean Moulin book. To see if, under foreign occupation, they might be able to cooperate. I did not get that sense from the book. Lots of mistresses, lots of self-serving politics, infighting and very little resistance. Heck, the first thing Moulin did when he was parachuted back into France after meeting de Gaulle and getting his radio in London was to go on a 10 day skiing trip in the Alps. And the money he was given to finance the resistance was mostly used to finance his own grip on power. But admittedly all this comes from just one book. And don't forget Vichy who sent 75000 French jews to concentration camps. But one needs to look more at the Dreyfus story to get a better feel for the history behind this. Finally, I would not take that 10000 derailments thing too seriously. The commies claimed many things. Regards Marshall PS: just by chance TF1 has the Moulin story on TV tomorrow.

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