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Editor Tabouis began her tremendous exposés. She exposed Laval's secret Ethiopian deal with Mussolini. She exposed the terms of the Hoare-Laval pact. She foretold (from information supplied by agents among the Nazis) the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi seizure of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. In time she seemed to be able to see through dispatch boxes, the impenetrable files of chancelleries, the even more impenetrable minds of Europe's statesmen...
...Government offices were transferring their officials to Paris. German Ambassador Otto Abetz arrived in Vichy, ostensibly to attend the funeral of General Charles Huntziger (see p. 31), but Ambassador Abetz dined with Marshal Pétain and the next day motored to Chateldon to see his old collaborator, Pierre Laval. On his return he lunched with the Marshal, then set out for Paris. Half an hour later a plane set General Maxime Weygand down at the Vichy airport...
...Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy...
France. The best-known rebel in Europe was saved from death. Young Paul Collette, who in Paris six weeks ago wounded Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, was condemned to death by a Vichy court. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Many observers of Vichy thought that the Marshal, knowing the rebellious temper of suppressed French millions, was too shrewd to risk the execution of a boy who had tried to kill two of Hitler's best French friends...
Three days later Pierre Laval, shot four times, once near the heart, left his hospital bed in promising condition and went home. Editor Déat died of his wounds...