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...Argentina, he is a politician who has kept out of the mainstream of politics. As Chief of Police, he has fired 57 out of 94 prefects, 230 out of 261 sub-prefects, appointed Army and Navy officers in their places. With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton...
...have taken a decision which I consider conforms to the interest of the country. Pierre Laval is no longer part of the Government. Pierre Etienne Flandin receives the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Constitutional Act No. 4, which designated my successor, is annulled. It is for high reasons of interior policy that I resolved to take this action. It has no effect upon our relations with Germany. I remain at the helm. The national revolution continues...
...message to Adolf Hitler, the Government declared that hulking, slow-moving, English-speaking Pierre Etienne Flandin would be "more apt" than his predecessor at "collaboration." The new Foreign Minister, also a veteran politician, has always been pro-German. It was he who as Premier in 1934 prevented French action when the Nazis marched into the Rhineland, and he consistently advocated a free hand for Hitler in Eastern Europe, provided he left France alone. Following Munich, he telegraphed the Führer his congratulations on his bloodless victory...
Whether Pierre Etienne Flandin was acceptable to Adolf Hitler remained for the latter's Agent-Ambassador Otto Abetz to say. Accompanied by a formidable Nazi delegation, Abetz hurried to Vichy while spokesmen in Berlin recalled that Germany and France were "still at war," and grimly intimated that upon his report would depend whether "the present state of affairs shall continue...
They variously saw: a French declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from...