The millionth French repatriate returned from Germany to Paris last week. Most of the million wore ragged clothes and battered shoes. At first they stood gossiping, joking, exchanging experiences and sharing cigarets in front of the Maison des Prisonniers (Prisoners' Reception Center) in Paris' Quartier de l'Europe. But soon small raiding forces, guided by individual "reconnaissance units" of ex-prisoners, peeled off to obtain by "peaceful infiltration" of food and clothing stores the necessities promised (but still unprovided) by the Government. Minister of Prisoners & Deportees Henri Frenay and Food Minister Paul...
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