Word: brinon
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...know such eminent U. S. citizens as John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who restored much of Versailles), General John J. Pershing (whose statue stands at Versailles) and Mrs. Harrison Williams ("best-dressed U. S. woman"). As a Senator he was active in the France-Germany Committee, of which Fernand de Brinon and Otto Abetz were leaders. All three became Ambassadors after the Franco-German Armistice: Abetz became Germany's Ambassador to Paris, De Brinon Vichy's Ambassador to Paris, Henry-Haye Vichy's Ambassador...
...Paris he talked to Hitler's Abetz again. He talked to Laval and to Fernand de Brinon, Vichy's Ambassador to Paris and Laval's man. Laval, playing for all or nothing, flatly refused the Marshal's offer. If he had expected the Germans to force him on Vichy, he was disappointed. Admiral Darlan had apparently persuaded Herr Abetz of his own worth as a collaborator, and he returned again to Vichy with the blessing of Herr Abetz and his boss. The Paris radio began praising Darlan and the German radio complimented Marshal Petain...
...terms of Adolf Hitler's new demands had come at last. They were not made public but their general tenor was known. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain learned of them by telephone from his Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon. They were harsher than the old Marshal had expected. Not only did Hitler want the restitution of Pierre Laval to power to insure the "collaboration" he demands, not only did he want passage for German troops across Tunisia for an attack on the British in Libya (TIME, Feb. 3), but he also now wanted to occupy Mediterranean...
...Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon, was back there from Berlin with Hitler's terms of "collaboration." The Marshal anxiously awaited the coming to Vichy of this onetime payoff man for Georges Bonnet who now held France's fate in his brief case. Hitler's terms were reported to include a demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then...
...week's end he sent word by Emissary De Brinon to Ambassador Abetz firmly refusing to make any further changes in his Cabinet. The Cabinet met in Foreign Minister Flandin's sickroom in Vichy to figure out the next move but one. The next move was Adolf Hitler...