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 leaders, there is among workers and peasants a latent sympathy for Communism, in theory and as
applied to the other fellow, and this is enhanced by Russian military success.
     The workers want government reform with properly organized trade unions a part of the
governing authority.  This demand is second only to adequate wage levels.  They have urged such
of their number as reach safety to plead with Algiers, London and Washington for food for the
cities if order is to be maintained.
     A serious internal problem is Germand demoralization of civilians in the north and east.  In
Alsace the children have been taught only Nazi tenets.  Girls have been encourage to accept
German advances to the point that a whole new generation of Germans is being born and it is rare
to see a girl or woman over 14 who is not with child.  The more determined elements of the
resistance movements come from Alsace and Loraine.  They operate in central France in
preparation for their return to their homeland.  
SUMMARY
     France overwhelmingly wants DE GAULLE.  He has promised on his return to surround
himself with a truly French government representative of those who stayed in France and resisted
the invader.  Parliament has lost its prestige and won't regain it.  The French do not want a return
of the Third Republic.  A French Army must land in France, and the resistance groups must be
assured
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