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...stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth & Family), two violent nationalists unloved by the Germans. Pierre Laval was now, for the moment at least, Vichy's one strong...
...have been living on lies," declared Interior Minister Adrien Marquet to his countrymen in announcing the forthcoming trials as part of an extensive domestic moral purge. "The hour of truth has sounded. . . . The rapidity of our catastrophe upset you and then you sought those responsible. It was useless to hunt widely. . . . The day they come to trial, our dead will sit on the prosecutor's bench. In the name of justice, those guilty of such political errors and military ignorance will be punished...
Sweet revenge to onetime Dentist Marquet, described as a combination of Huey Long, Don Juan and Hitler, was the purging of Daladier. In 1934 the ex-Premier suggested the possibility of a Cabinet post to Marquet. "I'll take the Interior or nothing," the latter declared and confided to a colleague, "Now that there are a couple of two-fisted men at the helm like Daladier and myself, there is nothing to fear." He did not get the post, and became anti-Daladier...
Feeling his oats last week, Minister Marquet also had advice for America. "Tell America her time is coming unless she wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time...
...Loyal Attitude." Hoping the Nazis would release food for the hungry millions of rump France, the controlled press urged a "loyal attitude" toward the conquerors, and Spokesman Marquet shouted loudly in the direction of Berlin that it was not in Germany's interest for undernourishment to breed pestilence...