No sooner had Moltke's German Army withdrawn from Paris in 1871 than its citizens began fighting among themselves. Paris, besieged four months by Germany. held out two more months against France. Many Frenchmen died before order was restored under the Third Republic.
Mindful of historic precedent, old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Chief of State, showed no eagerness last week to see German troops withdrawn once more from Paris. Instead, he worked overtime at Vichy, provisional capital of unoccupied France, to persuade the German-French Armistice Commission to fulfill its promise, let his Government...
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