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...Marshal's profile, slogans and symbols appeared on stamps, china, ash trays, badges, hatbands, blotters, coins, bijoux and shaving mugs. A francisc, the Marshal's Frankish emblem, adorned all official documents. The Marshal's colors and cheerful slogans about healthy children appeared on milk bottles. Frenchmen wryly remembered World War I, when the Kaiser's picture had adorned the bottoms of chamber pots...
...Hitler was mad as hell. The six million foreign workers already in Germany were not enough. He needed more, and he wanted those Frenchmen who were not willing slaves: they could be exchanged for Naziphile prisoners, and France's best blood thus diluted by its worst. Laval did his best to oblige. He yelled for more workers. He sent foreign and French Jews by the thousands to Nazi labor camps in Poland and Silesia. He ordered 1,600 factories in Unoccupied France shut down. He warned France that lack of raw materials would soon increase the number. He told...
...protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
Though Vichy might not go to war for Adolf Hitler, it did the next best thing for him. Last week it passed sweeping new laws obliging all Frenchmen between 18 and 50 and all unmarried Frenchwomen between 20 and 35 to work at any job the Government might name. This wording fooled nobody. Germany desperately needs workers. Last June Hitler had offered the release of 1,500,000 French war prisoners as bait to French labor. But only a few thousand workers had been willing to cross into Germany. Now Hitler had forced Vichy to force Frenchmen to cross...
...with a face made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous...