Word: petain
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France was in pain. Cold and the want of food and fuel were painful. And if millions of Frenchmen were anguished by collaboration with Germany, so was collaborating Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. He virtually begged Germany for mercy...
...stooges in the Paris press: "It is my duty to call deserters all who in the press as on the radio, abroad and in France, resort to abject tasks. ..." To this the stooges replied with charges that Vichy was abandoning "collaboration while Paris is upholding it," that Marshal Petain had been listening too respectfully to U.S. Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy...
...President watched the clock and his timetable. But the stationmaster was still Adolf Hitler, whose Reichmarshal Hermann Goring was discussing the fate of France with ancient Marshal Petain. The President did not want a declared U.S.-Japan war. Hitler did. They had the same reason: diversion of the U.S. war effort away from Britain and Russia...
...policy has been that, as long as France did not give Hitler more help than the terms of the armistice called for, the U.S. would recognize Petain. In the execution of that policy, the U.S. has been cautious. Admiral Leahy was sent to Vichy. General Weygand was bolstered with aid -15 shiploads of supplies in eleven months -enough, it was hoped, to keep him friendly; not enough to make much difference if a more pro-Axis general replaced him. The Free French, who now control twelve colonies, went unrecognized, got no direct Lend-Lease aid (except via the British). Strategically...
...based planes could destroy Italian cities by night bombing expeditions and with the aid of the British navy they can send the Italian fleet off to Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing Petain to dismiss Weygand and their efforts to obtain control of the French fleet prove that they are quite aware of the importance of this blitzkrieg in the Battle of the Mediterranean. Yet, while it is possible for them to fly men and light supplies into Africa, it is impossible...