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...followed by two police cars. He got out quickly, rushed up the steps and through the revolving doors of the Hotel du Pare. Not a sound came from the crowd. They were not there to pay tribute. They were there out of morbid curiosity. They, like millions of other Frenchmen, could guess what final cruelties and betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure a German victory. Laval had said (in a letter quoted by the journalist Pertinax, who estimated that 90% of the French people are pro-British...
...Value of Petain. In the beginning, Marshal Petain had been a natural for Hitler. The old man was a totalitarian and a collaborationist who was also known to many Frenchmen as a French patriot. With his help the French Fleet and the French African bases were neutralized, forming a buffer between Britain and Axis operations in the Mediterranean. With his help democrats were purged from the French Navy, Army and police - a purge which Laval may find very handy...
Called to Harvard in 1937, Professor Cons had previously held teaching positions at Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, University of Illinois, Swarthmore College and Columbia University. One of the first Frenchmen in this country to take an unequivocal stand behind General Charles De Gaulle, he was active in promoting the Free French cause in America, serving as the president of the New England chapter of France Forever...
...durability of Vichy's neutrality. Answering Pétain's protest over U.S. recognition of the Free French De Gaullist regime in French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons, the U.S. had allowed itself the rare diplomatic luxury of speaking frankly. Said the U.S. note: "(A) handful of Frenchmen ... in contempt for the high tradition of liberty and individual freedom which has made France great, have sordidly and abjectly, under the guise of 'collaboration,' attempted to prostitute their country to that very regime in Germany which is bent upon nothing else than the permanent enslavement of France...
While robust Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy tugged for the U.S., Adolf Hitler threw into the contest Germany's best friend in France, the political contortionist Pierre Laval, a man so abhorred by masses of Frenchmen that no mention of his meeting with Marshal Petain was permitted in Vichyfrench newspapers...