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Last week Nazi workmen removed the remains of L'Aiglon from the dingy cellar of Vienna's Capuchin Church, placed the plain lead casket aboard a Paris-bound express. Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop left Berlin for a secret destination. Pierre Laval, Vice Premier of France, left Paris for Vichy. He arrived there late one afternoon...
...nominate for manikin of the year - Pierre Laval...
Like Joseph Stalin, Ramon Serrano Suner was playing a cagey game. No sooner had the trade agreement with Britain been announced than he set out for Paris to talk to Pierre Laval. While he was there the major remaining units of the French Fleet sailed from Toulon on a mysterious mission. Next day the Fleet was reported maneuvering in the Mediterranean. By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo. Mad at Britain over Oran and De Gaulle, and under pressure from Germany...
Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain acted fast and with surprising firmness. Calling Vice Premier Pierre Laval from Paris, he convened his Cabinet and with it composed the following communique concerning the Lorrainers' evacuation...
...Sharpened Fears. Next day Pierce Laval went back to Paris to implement this protest, to bargain for the Lorrainers and on other matters. He might not get his way on everything, but there were two German fears which might win him some concessions. They were: 1) French colonies in Africa might somehow fall into British hands; 2) French territories in the Western Hemisphere might be"taken"by the U. S. Both fears were sharpened a little last week...