Word: chateldon
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Said Madame Laval: she had not even lived at Vichy, but at Chateldon, some 13 miles away. She was doing "agricultural work." Her husband believed his policies were best for France, and she believed her husband...
Typically human transaction: Laval had a friend who was a director of the commissary department of the Wagons-Lits. Laval and he decided to put the bottled waters of Laval's birthplace, Chateldon, in every French dining car. But the Government sanitary authorities three times refused to endorse the waters of Chateldon, which had no special properties whatever. Laval got a friend appointed Health Minister in a fast-disappearing French Cabinet, got his endorsement, made his sales. Laval's legal manipulation was especially lucrative while his friend Caillaux occupied the Finance Ministry. He figured in many great French...
They met at Laval's request, somewhere near his estate at Chateldon in Randan Forest, twelve miles southwest of Vichy. Pierre Laval made the old Marshal a dazzling offer: if Laval were taken into the Vichy Government, the Nazis would free all French prisoners of war, allow the Vichy Government to move to Paris, greatly reduce France's occupation costs...
...that Hitler would get what he wanted. Government offices were transferring their officials to Paris. German Ambassador Otto Abetz arrived in Vichy, ostensibly to attend the funeral of General Charles Huntziger (see p. 31), but Ambassador Abetz dined with Marshal Pétain and the next day motored to Chateldon to see his old collaborator, Pierre Laval. On his return he lunched with the Marshal, then set out for Paris. Half an hour later a plane set General Maxime Weygand down at the Vichy airport...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...
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