The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-07

Of Americans TO leave Paris. Wit
left the former French capital si
the Nazis took over.
Mr.. Osborne had gone to
France with the A.E.r., stayed
after the last war ~ proprietor
Of two small machine factories
-one in Maubeuge and one In
Paris.
"The general situation In Par
u ID bad and getting worse
daily" Mr.. Osborne said. 1.-THE
Germans have taken Ill raw ma.
terials. The food picture Il ex-
tremely black. The French used
to live on bread and potatoes.
There are almost no potatoes
left. Bread has been cut 80 per
cent. Every day I saw thousands
of women waiting In line for
hours for q few pounds Of car.
rots. Parisians are living for
weeks at q time on just turnips
and carrots and q few shell
fish"
Sitting on his lap while he
talked was Mr.. Osborne's
youngest child, Denyse. She is
five. "She was too old to get
milk ration" Mr.. Osborne said.
1T stops at three"
SHORTAGE OF
ALL MATERIALS
The shortage of materials ex-
tends to all lines. You get coal
II there are Germans living in
your building. Otherwise you
don't. Transportation Ii at q
standstill because gas and oil
are forbidden except to the
Nazis. The Germans are taking
almost all the output Of factor
les.
1.-THE Germans weren't actu.
ally running my factories" Mr..
Osborne said, but they were
taking my entire output. The
armistice terms promised that
the French would not have TO
make war materials. But they
also stated that French material
must be surrendered In perfect
condition. The Germans get
around the first terms by de-
handing that French factories
repair imperfect war materi-
ais"
This is where hope enters the
picture in Paris. At the time of
the armistice. Mr.. Osborne esti-
mates that Paris was split $3.50
over the question Of collabora.
ton with the Germans. Now he
thinks Parisians are o5 per cent
against 1t. The Nazis' big mis-
take, he says, II starving the
people. The women, who are the
ones to wait in line for hours,
are most bitter.
PARIS SOLIDLY
BEHIND PETAN
"The Parisians are solidly be-
hind Petain," Mr.. Osborne con-
tinued. "They believe he'll act
at the psychological moment"
He repeated . story told every
where In Paris, illustrative Of
the French attitude:
When Petain met Hitler after
The armistice, Hitler delivered .
two-hour lecture. At It's end.
Petain said: "Well, Herr Hitler,
/ guess there's nothing more to
be said" Hitler stor m e d:
There's this much more. Re-
member that / can be with my
army In Marseilles In two days
to occupy the rest of France"
Eyes," replied Petain, land l
can be In Morocco in two hours"
With this hope, French resist
ance, both active and passive, is
steadily mounting. Almost every
morning two or three Nazis are
found dead in the narrow, wind.
ing streets Of the Montmartte
section. Children make q swim
ming gesture when German a.
ficers pass. This gesture says:
The Channel Is wide and cold"
The day after Hitler restored
L'Aiglon's ashes to the side Of
his father, Napoleon, q large
sign appeared In the Paris mar.
kets: Take back your eaglet
and give us back our pigs"
RUMORS. BUT
NO NEWS
There are rumors Of many
other signs Of resistance. They
are mostly rumors, because Par.
is Is without news. Mr.. Osborne
illustrated with q story from last
fall, when the r. A. r. dropped
q weekly newsletter, "Quand
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