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French Composer Darius Milhaud answered unequivocally: "I don't see why artists should not be treated as ordinary citizens. Jacques Benoist-Mechin is a composer who has written a few works in which you may find a certain gift. He was a minister in the Laval cabinet. Now he is arrested, accused as a traitor, a German spy. I hope he will be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Citizens or Children? | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

France seethed with indignation. The Laval-Pétain duet was conking out. Its collaborationists' burbling was drowned by the rattle of machine guns outside hostage camps. Laval fired arch-collaborationist Jacques Benoist-Mechin from his job as Secretary of State, on the ground that Naziphile Benoist-Méchin had conspired against him. In the next breath Laval told newspapermen that his "Government was based on "solid foundations," remarked that rumors of its fall were "laughable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anesthesia in France | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Marshal's train bore him back to Vichy, his Secretary of State, Jacques Benoist-Mechin, said significantly that the meeting had represented "the marked will of the French Government to engage itself ever more constantly on a path of durable and fruitful European collaboration." As the Marshal stepped down from his car in the heavily guarded Vichy station, he was greeted by a solitary cry of "Vive Pétain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Journey Into the Night | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...round-shouldered Marcel Déat, had been told to try to smooth Paris-Vichy relations and they appointed a committee to do so. Two members of this committee promptly got jobs with the Vichy Government: Doriot's lieutenant, Paul Marion, as Secretary for Information, and one Benoist Mechin, editorial writer for the anti-Semitic Gringoire, as Assistant General Secretary to Admiral Darlan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Troubled Exiles | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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