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With some wonderment in its tone, Canadian Military Headquarters in London said that in the field of absence-with-out-leave Adrien Demers was probably "standing broad-jump champion" of the Canadian or any other army. In Bordon, Hampshire, last week, the stubby, 35-year-old lance corporal from South Granby, Quebec, blandly pleaded guilty to being AWOL for "1,692 days, twelve hours, 20 minutes...
...Adrien Demers enlisted in May, 1940, was shipped to a Canadian camp near Guildford, England. He went AWOL at Christmas time, he said, because a guardroom sergeant made his life miserable. Then, for four years and eight months, right under the noses of the Canadian Army, he lived an unsoldierly life of Riley...
...dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British-hating favorite of Admiral Darlan, brother of an editor of the British-hating Action Fran...
...declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from the rear; peace drives; war drives...
...tain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth & Family), two violent nationalists unloved by the Germans. Pierre Laval was now, for the moment at least, Vichy's one strong...