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...Vichy's catlike Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan angrily considered a letter from 62-year-old General Count Benoît Léon de Fornel de la Laurencie. A brave fighter in France's brief World War II defense, the General was among the few French commanders at Dunkirk. There he bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were...
After the Armistice, Marshal Pétain appointed General de Fornel delegate to the German Army of Occupation, but he did not fancy the job and last winter was removed. To Admiral Darlan he wrote that he had "no confidence in the generosity of our conquerors. ... I not only hope for but expect a British victory. Moreover I share this opinion with a great majority of my fellow citizens, whether in the free zone or the occupied zone...
Last week Admiral Darlan threw General de Fornel de la Laurencie in jail...
...Lift up your heads, gallant Frenchmen. Not all the infamies of Darlan and Laval shall stand between you and the restoraion of your birthright...
...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 for Prevention...