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...secret told, Cordell Hull cared little about Vichyfrance reaction, remained stonily indifferent when the Laval Government told tall, dapper S. Pinkney Tuck, to whom the development was no surprise, that it was breaking relations with...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight accused French Chief of Government Pierre Laval of doing Hitler's the United States, but declared that bidding in breaking off relations with "no act of Hitler, or any of his puppets, can sever relations between the American people and the people of France...
...Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain tried to keep up the illusion that there was food in France. Frenchmen knew that French food, like French heavy industry and French labor, was being transferred to Germany. Hitler was following Machiavelli's preachment: "He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty. . . ." In France last week the sound of the watchword was growing louder...
...Pierre Laval's Mobile Guards and French Legion storm troopers had fired rifles and machine-gun volleys, hurled hand grenades into crowds of French demonstrators at Lyon and Ambérieu. Fifty-five deaths (which Vichy denied) were reported...
...guns on a destroyer; makes it visually implicit in the contrast between the faces of Nazified Frenchmen and those who would be free. There is a vivid shot of faces at an Underground meeting contrasted with those around the Nazi collaborationist Jacques Doriot; another of the "political vultures" around Laval, contrasted with the resolute faces of Fighting Frenchmen as they enlist under De Gaulle in London. There is one memorable glimpse of the cold, incredulous fury in the eyes of the victims of Laval's industrial draft. In such shots The Fighting French has the fierce impact...