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...small French town of Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
...enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman Joseph Darnand, Minister of Labor Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot might become No. 1. puppet: "A people's Government is ready to take over if the French Government does not do its duty...
...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...