Word: laval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler's measure the great question was: Who tires soonest? Perhaps it was that question which he pondered this week with Pierre Laval (see p. 23) and Germany's and Italy's top generals. Ahead of them was a very tiresome winter...
...Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
...Allies before they entered North Africa. Said he: "After the Armistice the Fleet had orders to scuttle their ships before allowing them to fall into alien hands. So long as I was in command, the order stood and was renewed from time to time. The current Laval government opposed that order. Therefore it was probably the Admiral [Jean de Laborde] commanding the Fleet at Toulon who issued the order to sink the ships." Admiral Darlan agreed with British authorities (TIME, Dec. 14) that the scuttling had immobilized most of the Toulon fleet...
...this confusion, with their homeland fully occupied and under Hitler's creature Pierre Laval, no one could say which way French minds would turn. But there were trends: it was reported by one labor leader who fled from France to London, with Air General d'Astier de la Vigerie, that President Roosevelt's stock had dropped 75% in France when Darlan was appointed, that General Giraud had "disappointed us all." The hopes of Frenchmen, in his view, were still pinned on De Gaulle; while Admiral Darlan held his present post, he said, the French people would never...
...passport racketeer, is knocked out of the show after 20 minutes. Sydney Greenstreet briefly represents the emigre black bourse. Oldtimer S. Z. Sakall (who should consider wearing his face in a brassiere) steals scene after scene as usual, merely by wobbling his jowls. Claude Rains is a bush-league Laval...