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...beginning of full collaboration by the Laval regime will make all French people bittrely turn away from Vichy and hopefully turn toward the United Nations for help. From this time forward, Vichy no longer represents France...
Emphasizing how much the activities of Free France will contribute to the morale of the French people, George H. Gerard '43, president of the Harvard Unit of France Forever, declared soon after Laval's reinstatement, that the Unit would immediately resume its work of publicizing the truth about conditions in France...
VICHY--Pierre Laval, Premier-designate in a French collaboration government, will return here tomorrow from Paris to confer with Marshal Henri Petain and Vice-Premier Admiral Francois Darlan on formation of his cabinet, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week, it was announced tonight...
...elevation of Fascist Laval to complete authority in the official government of France comes as a surprise only to those who have refused tense of autonomy, France has been a defeated na-of the Vichy regime. For regardless of its pretense of autonomy, France has been a defeated nation since June 1940 and has never had the power to oppose any direct German demands. The government's part has been that of a propaganda agency, designed to persuade the French people that all steps taken by Vichy were French steps for French Freedom. But the essential military role of French...
Arguments that Dakar and the French flect might be turned over to the Axis if the U. S. took decisive action on Vichy collaboration may have been valid in the days when that regime was still playing mouse to Germany's cat, but with Laval in command of all military and political resources, France becomes a full fledged member of the still growing corporation. Vichy's navy will be on hand when the Axis is ready to use it, and with every indication of the start of a spring offensive, that time must be near...