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Last week Pierre Laval, slickest collaborationist of them all, talked again with Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Randan forest, where they met last fortnight (TIME, April 6). There were the same rumors that Laval brought Adolf Hitler's demands and threats, insisted that the Riom trials be stopped.* Diplomatic circles also heard that Laval appealed to Pétain's friendship by telling him, truly or falsely, that an arch-collaborationist coup d'état was being planned in Paris. Afterward Laval reminded the press that it was he who had instigated French collaboration with...
While robust Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy tugged for the U.S., Adolf Hitler threw into the contest Germany's best friend in France, the political contortionist Pierre Laval, a man so abhorred by masses of Frenchmen that no mention of his meeting with Marshal Petain was permitted in Vichyfrench newspapers...
They met at Laval's request, somewhere near his estate at Chateldon in Randan Forest, twelve miles southwest of Vichy. Pierre Laval made the old Marshal a dazzling offer: if Laval were taken into the Vichy Government, the Nazis would free all French prisoners of war, allow the Vichy Government to move to Paris, greatly reduce France's occupation costs...
...Pierre Laval's nosing around Vichy failed, Adolf Hitler might force Vichy's assurances to the U.S. into the wastebasket. This week it was rumored that Vichy had halted the Riom war-guilt trials, quite possibly because they had outraged Hitler (TIME, March...
...Equally abhorred is Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre, who with Laval was wounded last summer by Nazi-hating young Paul Colette (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat lectured at Tours. Someone threw a sputtering missile at him. After it had bounced off his coat, he snuffed out its fuse. German newspapers said it was a bomb, French that it was only a pétard (firecracker), not powerful enough to hoist hefty Editor...