The journalism of the French resistance

"The first publishers of underground sheets were journalists by chance," wr ites a French press historian. "Political party militants, labor unionists, academics, members of the professions, students, writers, clergymen, lawye rs and army officers switched to journalism-and were surprised to discover how easy it was to express their indignation and enthusiasm in short column s, or to comment upon events that they heard about on the radio or in the r egular papers."