Word: brinon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leaning on a cane, hook-nosed Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy representative to German-occupied France, limped to an execution post at the Fort de Montrouge, outside Paris. A volley from the firing squad ended...
Crook & Gunman. To the favorable and the unfavorable testimony, the Marshal showed the same stoic indifference. But two witnesses jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...
...Said De Brinon: Pátain favored collaboration. Said Darnand : Pátain had authorized his acts. The Marshal flushed red with rage, stalked out of the court to his cell...
...workers whom Hitler wanted in Germany. Pierre Laval had been able to recruit a mere 18,000, including many unskilled French Arabs. Laval was hurt by his German bosses' lack of consideration. By way of characteristically weak-chinned protest he called Vichy's Paris agent, Fernand de Brinon, back to the unhappy...
...only member widely familiar in the U.S. is Fernand de Brinon, recently Vichy's agent in Paris). Laval himself is Chief of Government, holds the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Information. Former Vice Premier Admiral Darlan has been given command of all Vichy's armed forces and made an Admiral of the Fleet for life...