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...squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped to get him his appointment) and, of course, John D. Rockefeller...
...Laval Hitler's Stooge...
...what about Laval?" he asked. "I wish I could read his mind. Is he a mere traitor? Is it personal ambition? Or does he sincerely believe that a German collaboration is better than even a British victory? Here the fact is that Laval is playing the game of the Germans, and in so doing he is fighting Petain...
...Pierre Laval...
...French front he suddenly backed down on his demands for use of the naval base at Bizerte and for reinstatement of Pierre Laval (see p. 24). This made for temporary stability behind his front against the British Isles...