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VICHY--Admiral Jean Francois Darlan tonight became French vice-premier and foreign minister in a stop-gap cabinet shakeup which is expected to pave the way for Pierre Laval's early return to power in the Vichy regime...
...James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were often involved. Most shocking case was that of four members of the heroic time-bomb disposal squad that saved St. Paul...
...October and November 1918 there was a tremendous barrage of propaganda leaflets written in German dropped over the enemy lines from balloons and airplanes which pointed out the futility of continuing the war and urged the Germans to pave the way for peace by revolt against the government. The exhibit has a sizeable collection of these propaganda leaflets dropped by both the American and French armies...
...campaign which the Japanese undertook against France and Britain in the East last fortnight was not only the most important of the China war's third year; it was likely to prove decisive, it might pave the way at last for the New Order...
Said Timesman Cortesi: "The objective in Mexico is not ... to pave the way for invading armies, but ... to create a diversion south of the Rio Grande capable of diverting the attention of the United States . . . from events in Europe." Next day, Hal Burton reported substantially the same facts to the New York Daily News...