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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...
Because Comte Fernand de Brinon is a personal friend of onetime French Premier Edouard Daladier, his interview with Chancellor Hitler drew a direct comment from the French Foreign Office: "We are ready to talk through Ambassadors. The question is whether Chancellor Hitler is willing to submit to supervision of the armaments we know he is building. We are willing to learn the answer through diplomatic channels...
What the French General Staff most fears is a successful policy of peace by Adolf Hitler for the next few years, until Germany is strong enough to fight and win. Last week Chancellor Hitler flung down the velvet gauntlet of Peace in a significant interview with Comte Fernand de Brinon of Paris' Le Matin...