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Lanny chats with Leon Blum and with the protofascist sons of an ex-mistress, and indulges in some mild flirtations, but his one dissipation is his telephone talks with old Johannes Robin, his rich Jewish relative by marriage in Berlin. These talks, and Lanny's occasional visits, reveal Germany's complex political landscape-and reveal also the terrible pathos of a Scheiber (profiteer) who caught on too late...
...grey morning last week, as the rain beat down on southern France, three old men set out on a journey. For over a year Edouard Daladier, Léon Blum and Maurice Gustave Gamelin had been held at Riom, charged with the guilt of France's destruction. Now, with their trial fixed for Jan. 15, they were sped by automobile south to Portalet Fortress. There, two days later, they were joined by two other statesmen of the French Republic: Georges Mandel and Paul Reynaud...
...they were about to exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort of Col du Pourtalet, there to await the trial they have already awaited for twelve months...
...life of fish. Hedy Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie...
...confidence in our leaders, the confidence that is the most elementary requirement for any army that wants to win." They never had reason to regain it-except in a few true officers. The other officers liked to say they loved France better than Hitler but Hitler better than Blum. The best officer Habe knew-a Colonel de Buissy, who had served in the Foreign Legion-was sent home. His superiors felt that he took the war much too seriously. Said one, contemptuously: "He wanted to resist at any cost...