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...event, if Edouard Herriot were really heading a subversive rump parliament last week, he could scarcely have felt easy about his own future. Vichy was getting fascistically tougher than ever. It was the first anniversary of Marshal Pétain's French Legion-veterans of two wars who support the Marshal. For three days there was Nazi-style mummery. By foot and airplane some 20,000 Legionnaires carried torches, lit from the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal...
Last week the second biggest news out of Vichyfrance (see p. 15) concerned the kind of man that Vichyfrance loathes and abhors: big, genial 69-year-old Edouard Herriot, three-time Premier of France, a generous, cultured, democratic gentleman. Recently secluded somewhere in Vichyfrance, he has not let Vichyfascism shut him up. He had the gizzard to contribute to the September American Mercury a nostalgic article extolling the French democratic tradition. Wrote he: "Among the memories which fill my journal, the most precious to me in these tragic days we are living through are the ones which bring back...
Last week it was reported from Vichy that Edouard Herriot was heading a secretly-meeting rump parliament of 100 French Senators and Deputies opposed to the Nazi-powered Vichy regime. Credence was speedily lent this report by Vichy decree. Senators and Deputies were ordered to stop meeting officially or semiofficially in Vichy, to move their offices to Châtel-guyon-les-Bains, a tiny spa 45 miles from Vichy...
When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...France, mountainous Edouard Herriot, three times Premier, last President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mayor of Lyon, whose booming voice has resounded in French politics since 1905, was arrested by the secret police of Vichy. Having sought security from the Nazis in Switzerland, M. Herriot erred in believing unoccupied France was safe for Radical Socialists, returned...