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...Beauvais, and found the village. He waited while the Admiral went in to talk with the Conqueror. When Jean Darlan came out he was neither particularly elated nor particularly depressed. The chauffeur knew only what was common talk: the Admiral had presented (in writing, not verbally, as Pierre Laval had negotiated) a new plan of Marshal Petain for "limited cooperation,'' whatever that might...
This seal makes it seem that Gedaliah's appointment had the support of the prophet Jeremiah. Dr. Spiegel suggested that Jeremiah may even have played Laval to Gedaliah's Petain...
...there's another, and equally important, angle to the question, and one which people like Dr. Beard tend to forget: the political. The question boils down to, Would France have fought at all if Pierre Laval were premier? and the answer is obviously, No. Or again, Would Churchill, Bevin and Morison be in power in England now if England had declined to fight? Again, No. Who would have been? The same group that Laval represented in France; the determined enemies of every social reform; the gang which will always benefit by appeasement. In regard to the American situation, then, just...
Ambassador Abetz had other demands to make. He wanted Laval's man, Fernand de Brinon, made emissary between Vichy and the German authorities in Paris. This Marshal Pétain agreed to. He wanted Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton's Groupe de Protection dissolved. This the Marshal also agreed to, although the GP was his own bodyguard. But when Ambassador Abetz demanded reorganization of the Cabinet, the ousting of Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, credited with heading the Pétain brain trust, Pétain asked for time...
These two were among the bitterest opponents of Laval in the Pétain Cabinet. Other non-politicians whom the old Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army...