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October 04, 2004

Kerry wins in a landslide*

'Aye, who's callin' me a Republican?' *in France

Nearly 9 out of 10 people in France would support John Kerry if they could vote in the U.S. election, according to a poll published Friday, Reuters reported from Paris.

The poll came as no surprise in the country that led opposition to the war and whose people were derided as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" by America's Republicans.

UPDATE From The Guardian

The government of Charles de Gaulle held hundreds of foreigners, including at least three Britons, in an internment camp near Toulouse for up to four years after the second world war, according to secret documents.
The papers, part of a cache of 12,000 photocopied illegally by an Austrian-born Jew, reveal the extent to which French officials collaborated with their fleeing Nazi occupiers even as their country was being liberated. They also show that, when the war was over, France went to extraordinary lengths to hide as much evidence of that collaboration as possible.

The documents are in a mass of registers, telegrams and manifests which Kurt Werner Schaechter, an 84-year-old retired businessman, copied from the Toulouse office of France's national archives in 1991. They are uniquely precious: under a 1979 law most of France's wartime archives are sealed for between 60 and 150 years after they were written.

"This is an untold story of the dark side of France's liberation 60 years ago," Mr Schaechter, a former musical instruments salesman, said at his home in Alfortville, a Paris suburb. "French functionaries were involved in a national scandal that continued until 1949: the despicable treatment of allied and neutral civilians interned during the war."


Posted by Darleen at October 4, 2004 10:29 AM

Comments

At the end of the Iraq war, can we hold Jacqueass Chirac in a camp somewhere? Puhleeeeze?

Posted by: weaselteeth at October 6, 2004 04:24 PM

Maybe in the cell next to Saddam.

What a wonderful thought!

Posted by: Darleen at October 6, 2004 05:54 PM