Word: laval
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...Bastille Day approached, the creased, oily, white-tied lawyer who steers Vichy-france toward the New Order made ready to go through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...
Trouble in Egypt. Meanwhile the U.S. Government, alarmed by Germany's Egyptian advance, had been fanciful enough to suppose that Pierre Laval might be willing to move French warships in Alexandria, Egypt* to the U.S., Martinique, or some other Western Hemisphere port for the war's duration. Britain said it would scuttle the ships rather than have them fall into Axis hands. The U.S., recovering its sense of reality, said it would back any such action. Laval replied that the French crews would fight any attempt at seizure. As the U.S. pondered a diplomatic break with Vichy, word...
Trouble at Home. Laval's fellow Nazi stooge, Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre, did not let him forget it. Said Déat in a Paris speech: "Watch out, Pierre Laval, to the right and left, behind and everywhere, they are surrounding you! Pierre Laval, you are terribly alone...
...over the nation, where celebrations had been forbidden except for the Vichy mockery of Laval and Pétain, Frenchmen observed the day. In Paris thousands marched silently past the Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...
...home, German women, whom Adolf Hitler called "the fighting soul of the fighting front," marched dutifully into the fields. With them went their children and their grandparents. From France came trainloads of workmen urged on by Pierre Laval who last week offered to trade tens of thousands of workmen for 5,000 interned French soldiers. To keep 2,500,000 alien laborers from grumbling, the Germans put out special language newspapers...