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...Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...
Last week, while Laval was singing the praises of Hitler's New Order to the staccato tune of German firing squads executing more than 65 French hostages in Rouen, St. Nazaire and Paris, five top members of Vichy's Embassy in Washington headed by Counselor Léon Marchal, saw fit to resign their posts and join the De Gaullist Free French movement...
Many Frenchmen, who had stomached the idea of Marshal Pétain as a possible savior of France, vomited all hope for Vichy when Pierre Laval took over...
...Unoccupied France, Pierre Laval had not yet shown his hand. Time might soon tell whether he would, or could, order the French Fleet into action or turn Madagascar over to the Japanese...
...between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things had no relation to each other; but perhaps they did. Hitler might...