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Trouble at Home. Laval's fellow Nazi stooge, Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre, did not let him forget it. Said Déat in a Paris speech: "Watch out, Pierre Laval, to the right and left, behind and everywhere, they are surrounding you! Pierre Laval, you are terribly alone...
Petain intimates claim that in December 1940 Laval planned a coup d'etat which would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration...
Poet Alfred Noyes, leaving the U.S. for Canada, blamed modern literature for the state of the world today, said of the fall of France that Marcel Proust was "enough in himself to cause...
...Equally abhorred is Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre, who with Laval was wounded last summer by Nazi-hating young Paul Colette (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat lectured at Tours. Someone threw a sputtering missile at him. After it had bounced off his coat, he snuffed out its fuse. German newspapers said it was a bomb, French that it was only a pétard (firecracker), not powerful enough to hoist hefty Editor...
...Vichy had recommissioned the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque and made it ready for action. In French North Africa and Dakar, German "technicians" were reported arriving by the score. In Paris, Marcel Déat, ablest spokesman for collaboration, urged open war against General de Gaulle to recover the lost colonies...