F French Fascism had come about as the result of a revolutionary movement aimed to defend the safety, security and morale of France, that would be one thing. order to pick up the arms that forced to abandon, it might be vigour and honour of France.
If it had come into being in the French democracy had been able to -associate itself with the But French Fascism cannot claim Hitler or Mussolini will have infor itself any prestige at all. First of all, it undermined and weakened France by continual conspiracy with her enemies. The French Republic, the while it shut up Communists and people who were not Communists at all but merely Left Wingers, treated the Right traitors with that tenderness which republics seem perennially to show to the upper classes, These people have always bad a leaning toward Fascism, particularly of the Franco-Mussolini brand. The death-blow to France was their victory. But a.new era is not started on the death-blow to a nation.
These remakers of the French Republic are, in fact, all the old political crooks of the Third French Republic, together with their scared fellow-travellers. M. Marquet the dentist Mayor of Bordeaux who founded the Neo-Socialist party of brief life; M. Dear, who wrote that "We don't want to fight for Danzig"; M. Laval, the shrewd and cunning fixer; M. Baudoin, banker for Indo-China and representative of the purest plutocracy, are not men to give new life to the French nation ven if there were any immediate possibility of giving new life. creased respect for France. Quite the. contrary.
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