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From Unoccupied France, the Vichy radio chimed in on the South American beam. Vichy's Ambassador to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, was heard intoning: "The Marshal [Petain] believes that Bolshevism is the greatest enemy of all, and therefore earnestly desires a German victory. . . . Washington leads the alliance of Jewish capitalists and Soviet Communists." This must have made curious listening for the U.S. State Department, which still sought to avoid giving Vichy " excuses" for falling inert into Hitler's arms...
What Hermann Göing and Henri Pétain talked about on this, their first meeting; what the lesser men in their entourage-Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan, Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador Otto Abetz-said to one another was not revealed as the meeting ended. There were many subjects to discuss, many tidbits of concessions that the Germans could offer, most notably the release of the 1,500,000 war prisoners and the restoration of Paris to Vichyfrance. The Germans wanted the Marshal to sign some sort...
...also turned over to the Nazis all enemies of the New Order they wanted. This was done with a grim parody of legality. The Germans gave the names they wanted to Vichy's Paris Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention...
...French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, to make the flat statement that Vichy was following Germany's conception of the coming world order rather than that of Great Britain...
...François Darlan there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might be the beginning of French military cooperation with Germany." Sleek, long-nosed Fernand de Brinon, who is made of the same stuff as Pierre Laval, is rumored to be in line...