You Don't Quite Understand!

Albert Guigui arrived half-starved from France. To the Fighting French in London, he brought assurance of the support of the once-powerful French trade-union movement. When he met the London press, he looked like an unkind caricature of Charlie Chaplin.

Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies?"

The reporter had posed a familiar question about General Charles de Gaulle's Rightist connections (which have worried some, pleased others). But it transformed M. Guigui into a dynamo of sudden eloquence.

"I have only been here a few days," he said, "and I have been reading your press, particularly on French political matters. It seems you don't quite understand what it means to be occupied by the Boche. I hope--in fact I am sure--you never will, but French politics today means only one thing: get rid of the Boche, and we back the man we're most certain is going to do it. You should sit as I have for two years around tables plotting with Socialists, Communists, priests, extreme Rightists, extreme Leftists, employers, workers, all friends together with one aim--France's liberation!"

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