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...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...
...battle stations or manning anti-aircraft guns on a destroyer; makes it visually implicit in the contrast between the faces of Nazified Frenchmen and those who would be free. There is a vivid shot of faces at an Underground meeting contrasted with those around the Nazi collaborationist Jacques Doriot; another of the "political vultures" around Laval, contrasted with the resolute faces of Fighting Frenchmen as they enlist under De Gaulle in London. There is one memorable glimpse of the cold, incredulous fury in the eyes of the victims of Laval's industrial draft. In such shots The Fighting French...
Following the General's talk, Colonel George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School, now head of the Resources Division of the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, said "Mistakes mean money in business, but at war, they mean lives. That is why we need trained men and why it is foolish for men to leave college...
Last week rumors increased that Adolf Hitler had threatened to replace Pierre Laval, who has not been able to curb French resistance, with Jacques Doriot...