Word: anti-p
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...home, Vichy was worried about the formation of a volunteer French legion to fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...