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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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