Parisians in the spring of 1943 know hunger, humiliation, the fear of air raids. Life in all of France is hard and ugly. But the French, and particularly the French of Paris, still have their old genius for softening the hardness and hiding the ugliness.
Sentiment for Americans. A German broadcaster last week turned French spirit to the uses of Axis propaganda. In an English-language broadcast beamed to the U.S., he burbled about "the charm and chic of the Parisienne compared to the women of other cities that you may know of." He...
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