Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...
...districts of Russia for Catholicism. Since 1927 the Holy See has been training workers at the Russiacum College in Rome to "preach, strengthen and defend the Catholic faith among the Russian people." Last week the Vatican reported that the first batch of missionaries had already reached Hungary and Rumania en route to their new posts in the conquered areas of Russia. Other priests soon will follow...
...named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France's downfall André Maurois dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing books in French on U.S. soil...
Tragédie en France came out last November; by last week 17 others had been added to Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains...
Last fortnight the U.S. apparently decided that General Weygand might form the focus of opposition to all-out Vichy-Berlin collaboration. Released from internment at Bermuda, the French tanker Shelterazade, full of U.S. oil, was en route to General Weygand's North African armies. The oil shipment should demonstrate to the natives and Vichy alike that the U.S. still has a stake in French policy...