Word: alibert
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tain agreed to. He wanted Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton's Groupe de Protection dissolved. This the Marshal also agreed to, although the GP was his own bodyguard. But when Ambassador Abetz demanded reorganization of the Cabinet, the ousting of Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, credited with heading the Pétain brain trust, Pétain asked for time...
...France for the French" was the slogan behind an entire series of decrees issued last week, the most significant of which provided for a review of all naturalizations granted since Aug. 10, 1927, the date of the existing naturalization law. A committee appointed by Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert will examine the case of each person naturalized since that date and will have the power to revoke citizenship if it deems the individual unworthy "of being a Frenchman. "Attracted by the ease of our life and by the prospect of quick profits," wrote Le Jour in sentences reminiscent of Germany...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
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