Gallo

Bertrand had freed his arm.

When Delpierre had suddeny remembered that they had both attended the Ecole normale supérieure and that it was thus alright to use the familiar form of address, Thorenc had guessed the other was trying to win him over.

- - De Gaulle, De Gaulle, had mused Delpierre, are we really sure of his democratic convinctions? His dominance of Moulin, but also of others who come from La Cagoule, are worrisome. As for the allegiance of the Communists towards him, no more reassuring.

Thorenc hadn’t wanted to recall the abdication of the Socialists during the time of the Spanish War, of Munich, of June 40, nor of their blind non-belligerence toward Nazism. Most of their members of Parliament had voted full powers to Pétain in July 1940. And now they were pretending to be prey to their conscience! They were worried about what would happen after the War! They were afraid of De Gaulle the dictator, and, naturally, like with many others of the Resistance, they were turning toward Roosevelt, ready for a new abdication in the name of democracy!

Thorenc had listenend to Delpierre with growing irritation and tiredness.

from: Max Gallo, THE PATRIOTS, Albin Michel, 2001.