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That was all-yet there were paragraphs to be gathered between the lines. This aged voice decrying public opinion was the voice which, last December, had dismissed Vice Premier Pierre Laval with the suggestion that public opinion would not support his policies. This was the voice which had last referred to "honor" by saying that it would prevent action against a former ally. This was the voice which millions had hoped, however much it was forced to say yes to the Nazis, would never echo them...
This week Admiral Darlan was received by the Führer himself. And from Zurich it was reported that Adolf Hitler had bestowed on Darlan and his predecessor Pierre Laval the Kriegsverdienstkreuz, second class-a Nazi military decoration for war services rendered outside of military-action...
...marched toward bloodless victories. With no fear of British reprisals, Unoccupied France turned over a sizable part of its shipping to help get the Germans to North Africa (see p. 23). Adolf Hitler sent a note to Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (Victor album; $2). For radio listeners to the mock-pompous announcements and the excellent hot playing of "Dr. Henry Levine and his Bare footed Dixieland Philharmonic" and "Maestro Paul Laval and his Woodwindy...
...month. "I don't want to do the sort of thing The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24) is doing," he pontificates. "No flare of drums and 'now we take you to Valley Forge'. . . . We don't need pompous democracy. I'm no junior Laval...