Word: montel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important of the four was Dr. Georges Benoit Montel, 49, who helped to run the city of Annecy for the Vichy regime and stridently mouthed Vichy's pro-Nazi propaganda. He got into Canada two years ago posing as Dr. Lacroix, quickly got a job at Laval University. When Montel confessed his illegal entry, Dominion authorities (following almost invariable practice) ordered him deported...
...Montel had friends in high places in France; before long they were in touch with their friends in high places in Quebec, in Ottawa and in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. To save Montel from being returned to France and retried on collaboration charges, the Canadian friends built a little fire under the federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit...