Word: brinon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Abetz had other demands to make. He wanted Laval's man, Fernand de Brinon, made emissary between Vichy and the German authorities in Paris. This Marshal Pétain 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...
Editor Williams added to his bubbling French plot the accusation that Flandin has been in communication with Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, that their liaison man is one Fernand de Brinon, Nazi-favored French journalist, that de Brinon's contact man in Germany is Otto Abetz, pre-war chief of Nazi intelligence work in France...