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...early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 27, Marshal Petain was awakened in Vichy to receive a letter from Adolf Hitler. His eyes still bemused by sleep, the old man read the words that ended his last vain hope of building up a new French state on the terms of the armistice signed at Compiegne. Because of "treachery" on the part of high officers of the French armed forces, the Führer wrote, he had ordered the demobilization of the remaining units of Vichy's Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining...
...midmorning it was all over. At 10 o'clock a message arrived in Vichy informing Marshal Petain that the fleet no longer existed. Occupation of Toulon by the Germans was completed without further incident. Martial law was clamped on the town; the Mayor decreed an 8 o'clock curfew for all public places...
...failed to lay in a sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
Turning to the political side of the occupation, he described the French of North Africa as semi-Fascists, welcoming Petain's decrees, his anti-Semitism, and his general political theories. These were only the residents, however...
...monarchism is the Pretender's cousin and advance agent, Charles, Due de Nemours. Throughout the war, on passports including those of the Vatican and the Knights of Malta, sporting young "Chappy" Nemours has shuttled between London (the late Duke of Kent was his boyhood playmate), Vichy (where Marshal Petain sees him instantly and at length) and Berlin. Chappy has also made his headquarters in Madrid, where he used to visit former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, relative of Chappy's blonde U.S. wife, the former Peggy Watson of Richmond...