Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium's three immortal heroes in World War I, two were King Albert and Desiré Félicien François Joseph Cardinal Mercier. The third was Adolphe Max, Burgomaster of Brussels. Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster...
Germany was squeezing tighter the noose about the neck of her mortal enemy. There was no more resistance left in sagging old Marshal Pétain; in puffy little Admiral Jean François Darlan there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might...
...trim-mustached little Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for conferences with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other chiefs of state. Behind closed doors spruce little General Weygand collided with Vichy's chief contact man with the Nazis, sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan. Their collision was heard outside the closed doors and reverberated in diplomatic circles for days...
Last week Vichy's wily, grey little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan announced that France "will act to hasten the hour of peace." Since he also was openly of the opinion that Britain could not win the war, this was tantamount to saying that France would now openly help the Axis end the war by winning it. That Britain was well aware of her former ally's hostile intentions was evident...
France's sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan felt it necessary to assure the French people last week that the Vichy-Nazi collaboration was in no way dishonorable. Making his first radio address to the nation, he unwittingly pictured himself as a high admirer of Adolf Hitler and an accomplished demagogue...