NORMANDY’S PLIGHT
Observer’s Impressions Of People (Received July 30, 7 p.m.)' *' NEW YORK, July 29. “The French -people have changed in nearly five years of war and four jears under, the Nazis,” says a “New 1 oik Times” correspondent,in Bayeux. xneir lack of energy and political apathy distress those who hope for a renaissance ot the French nation. However, this certainly is not a permanent condition. “The Allied invasion of. Normandy was first greeted with jubilation, but now it is almost regretted in the shattered areas. The Normans say that things were only a little worse under the Germans. . They attribute all the bombing'destruction to the British and Americans, without considering that the Germans must be drueii out. . . “The French civilian losses are certainly high, but are inflated by gossip. One Frenchwoman declared that 1200 persons were killed in the Caen area alone.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 260, 31 July 1944, Page 5
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