MADAGASCAR: Enfants de la Patrie . . .

The police of Tananarive on Vichy's Madagascar were at first puzzled, then alarmed. All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night. Day after day the police would erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and...

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