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...must communicate to you [Vichy Radio] a dispatch of the greatest importance. M. Pierre Laval has just arrived by parachute in a small village in Massachusetts. M. Laval apparently bears interesting proposals which he will not discuss with anyone except authorized representatives of the Separatist French Movement in America. . . . According to the very latest news, M. Laval is not able to find the representative of the suppressed French minorities because he is in Ireland with the American Expeditionary Force." Other developments...
France was in a ferment, and so were its Nazi overlords. The New York Times heard last week that a full 90% of the French people were sick of collaboration with Germany. They had had both provocation and inspiration. There had been the ascendancy of the hated Pierre Laval in Vichy and the flashing British Commando raid on St.-Nazaire. The Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable...
...rumble of the French underground-Communists, Socialists, leftist Roman Catholics, some Rightists-was increasing. It was becoming apparent to the Nazis that Laval was not getting their work done in France. The time had already come for Pierre Laval to worry about keeping his treacherous...
...Pierre Laval is a squatty, villainous-faced old man who made political capital of his own nation's disunity and pushed France into subservient collaboration with its 20th-Century invader...
...English Duke of Burgundy, Radio Paris blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn't changed...