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When the editorial referred to "a new fashion called the democratic process." Professor Taylor recalled the dictum of former French premier Laval that "Democracy is dead the world over." He hoped that the isolationists would face the decision of the majority of Americans in the spirit of democracy. He declared that the "extreme isolation argument" had been fully heard in Congress, on the radio, and in the press...
Meanwhile, with ostentatious secrecy, a destroyer flotilla of the U. S. Navy departed on a mystery voyage to waters near Martinique. With rumors multiplying of the Vichy Government's aggressive collaboration with Hitler, with Vice Premier Laval asserting that democracy throughout the world was dead, with no U. S.-built warplanes destined for France still immobilized in Martinique, the significance of that move caused some good guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers...
...Signature)" "Don't," the instructions added, "write between the lines." But if letters could not cross the frontier, statesmen could and did. Fortnight ago, first dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, then doddering Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, crossed to Paris to negotiate with Hitler. Last week, Laval, adding Paul Ba'udouin's portfolio of Foreign Affairs to those he already held, made a second trip to Paris, talked long with German civilian and military authorities...
...week's end, with Laval's return from Paris, Vichy began, if not to explain, at least to adumbrate. The negotiations had been, not for peace, but for armistice extension. Ultimate settlement is far off, Laval stated, probably not till the end of Germany's military operations; but short-range "precise questions . . . will be answered shortly." "Diplomatic spokesmen" opened up a little. Correspondents scaled down their predictions to soberer internal realities, began to guess more cautiously. From their guesses emerged roughly the following picture...
...next splendid stop was at a French village near Tours. Gracious as King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want...