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...defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures...
...Among the world's other top-rankers are: London's Leon Goossens (brother of the Cincinnati Symphony's Conductor Eugene Goossens); the Boston Symphony's Fernand Gillet; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Bruno Labate...
Friend & Foe. Bright as a dollar and full of information on underground resistance, French Communist Leader Fernand Grenier bobbed up in London. He table-thumped that all France is united behind De Gaulle as a symbol of liberation. Grenier "agreed that Giraud is the ideal man to lead the fighting forces for North Africa," but it was to De Gaulle that he brought a promise of support...
...French workers whom Hitler wanted in Germany. Pierre Laval had been able to recruit a mere 18,000, including many unskilled French Arabs. Laval was hurt by his German bosses' lack of consideration. By way of characteristically weak-chinned protest he called Vichy's Paris agent, Fernand de Brinon, back to the unhappy...
Radio Vichy in mid-May launched a campaign to woo French-Americans in New England back "to ancient tradition." For Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born brains of NBC's French section, this was a lulu. Said Auberjonois one night in his short-wave news broadcast to France...