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...thousand workers in the industrial regions, including Lyon, were striking. (Vichy admitted some strikes had been "attempted...
...Jayvees ran a steady and consistent race to outscore Tufts and M. I. T. at Tufts yesterday afternoon. Tech took the first two places, but Hyde finished third, Archie Lyon fourth, and Bunks Burditt seventh to sew up the victory for the Crimson...
...Response. Laval pushed the plan feverishly, prodded by German threats, complaints and taunts that France had not earned "the right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages...
Within 24 hours ten policemen were assigned to keep Edouard Herriot interned at his estate near Lyon. To Lyon, which Edouard Herriot had served 36 years as Mayor, the police looked like a guard of honor. When Berlin reported later that M. Herriot had been sent to a concentration camp at Vals-les-Bains, Vichy did not confirm it. Frenchmen hoped it was not true, felt that Vichy would not dare...
Copies of the eloquent pastoral letter (TIME, Sept. 21) of Archbishop Jules Geraud Saliège of Toulouse passed from pocket to pocket. In Lyon, Pierre Cardinal Gerlier repeatedly protested mass deportations, and a "Christian Amity" group preached tolerance for all. Laval ordered Father Chaillet, leader of the group, interned in a fixed residence at Privas...