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...first stop was Paris. There the ceremonies were a little shabby, for Herr Hitler's levee was with the butcher's son, Pierre Laval. But the dealings were vast. Herr Hitler knew all about his guest; knew him for a shrewd lawyer-politician who had swung rightward with the years and was out to make a deal for France...
...French Armistice was four months old, and Adolf Hitler, seconded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, had decided to present M. Laval with German demands for the future: reportedly the use of French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, airfields at Beirut, Tripoli, major concessions in North Africa, perhaps territorial cessions from continental France to Germany, Italy, Spain. As persuasion he offered "a place in the New Order"-or else starvation. M. Laval took the best he could get, hurried back to Vichy...
...They became outspoken in their desire to see Britain defeated, in their displeasure over increased U. S. aid to their late ally. Pierre Laval's Moniteur denounced news of U. S. support for Britain as "hypocritical rumors which are poisoning a large part of public opinion...
Lieutenant de Chambrun, of St. Cyr and the infantry reserve, got his call on the early morning of Aug. 23 when two policemen came to his Paris apartment and notified him to join his unit. "This time," said the officer, "it means business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like...
...Abbe Sieyes who was asked what he had done in the Great French Revolution, Sir Samuel could faithfully reply: 'I kept alive.' " Hoare's record includes negotiating, without the knowledge of the French, the British-German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out in the Hoare-Laval agreement. In fact, "as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare passed from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...