Word: doriot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them with stronger men who would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which, of course, can be arranged at any time), Darnand is automatically to become "acting Chief of Government." Mourning somewhere in the shadows is Marshal Pétain (who had written to Laval that he "declined all personal responsibility...
...Discussions in Paris with Jacques Doriot and Marcel Déat, Fascist editors and leaders, for the creation of a single French political party. Said Déat last week: "France must . . . cooperate in Hitler's so-called New Order. [The alternative is] a collective death certificate...
...Laval could rally the French to fight Allied troops was a problem for the oily little lawyer to figure out for himself. Last week Jacques Doriot, another collaborator of Laval's soiled stripe, got clubbed in Paris. Near Lyon, 5,000 peasants and townspeople gathered for the funeral of British aviators who crashed returning from Italy...
...outbreak was timed one day ahead of a national convention of Jacques Doriot's pro-Nazi PPF party in Paris and his regional offices were tarets for some of the bombs...
There were two explosions in Vichy, one at 3 a.m. and one at 4 a.m. The first one demolished the Doriot headquarters here and the second wreeked the propaganda office of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's government. It was the first time a government office has been attacked in the unoccupied zone. The explosions came at the stroke of the hour, and obviously were time bombs...