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...last he got bearings on Beauvais, and found the village. He waited while the Admiral went in to talk with the Conqueror. When Jean Darlan came out he was neither particularly elated nor particularly depressed. The chauffeur knew only what was common talk: the Admiral had presented (in writing, not verbally, as Pierre Laval had negotiated) a new plan of Marshal Petain for "limited cooperation,'' whatever that might...
...shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then lie may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression, if one be enforced apart from the other, sufficient grounds for taking up arms again."-Mein Kampf...
...accepted. His administration of Puerto Rico, which is fast becoming the U. S.'s No. 1 Caribbean naval & air base, had been effective. He was fully aware of U. S. defense problems, could be counted on to buck up the harassed Vichy Government against the demands of Conqueror Hitler...
Morize stressed the vast amount of human suffering caused by the war and urged that if relief were sent by nations outside of Europe, it would serve to encourage resistance to the conqueror...
Germany does not dictate all the decrees of Vichy directly. But the peace of France will not be written until warfare ceases, and Vichy commits the pardonable sin of wishing to please the conqueror so that the peace will be gentle. Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain...