Word: fernande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Hermann Göing and Henri Pétain talked about on this, their first meeting; what the lesser men in their entourage-Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan, Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador Otto Abetz-said to one another was not revealed as the meeting ended. There were many subjects to discuss, many tidbits of concessions that the Germans could offer, most notably the release of the 1,500,000 war prisoners and the restoration of Paris to Vichyfrance. The Germans wanted the Marshal to sign some sort...
...From the files of General Henri Fernand Dentz, former Vichy commander in Syria who was sent home last week, the British took telegrams which proved beyond question that Vichy had collaborated with the German Army. One telegram, signed by Minister of War General Charles Huntziger, read...
...also turned over to the Nazis all enemies of the New Order they wanted. This was done with a grim parody of legality. The Germans gave the names they wanted to Vichy's Paris Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention...
...defend the French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, to make the flat statement that Vichy was following Germany's conception of the coming world order rather than that of Great Britain...
...spit & polish. Inside, in the reception room, besides the conquering Allied generals waited 20-odd foreign consuls; native political leaders; sheiks in wimples; religious dignitaries from the country's many Moslem and Christian sects. They waited in vain for Admiral Pierre Victor Gabriel Gouton (acting for General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner) to come out and say goodby...