Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Abetz had other demands to make. He wanted Laval's man, Fernand de Brinon, made emissary between Vichy and the German authorities in Paris. This Marshal Pétain agreed to. He wanted Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton's Groupe de Protection dissolved. This the Marshal also agreed to, although the GP was his own bodyguard. But when Ambassador Abetz demanded reorganization of the Cabinet, the ousting of Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, credited with heading the Pétain brain trust, Pétain asked for time...
...that of the service of the State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much in evidence as a disposition to curry favor with the conquerors...
Editor Williams added to his bubbling French plot the accusation that Flandin has been in communication with Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, that their liaison man is one Fernand de Brinon, Nazi-favored French journalist, that de Brinon's contact man in Germany is Otto Abetz, pre-war chief of Nazi intelligence work in France...
Last week a new movement was afoot: special "paternity furloughs" for soldiers. President Fernand Boverat of the French League Against Depopulation warned recently that unless more furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...