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Getting there first is one job the Navy could successfully take on. Only deterrent to preventive occupation last week was not Navy realism, but the U.S. State Department. For any such blow at Vichy would destroy the last diplomatic threads between Washington and Petain, might even commit the U.S. to fighting where the Navy would have a harder time...
...said Franklin Roosevelt last week in an appeal to the French people. Yet obviously he believed it, Washington believed it. Petain's announcement of new French collaboration with Germany (see p. 27) meant that Hitler's legions would soon be at Dakar, eyeing the Western Hemisphere across the narrowest part of the Atlantic...
...many loyal but tired Frenchmen last week the springs and parks and ornamental villas of Vichy seemed more forlorn than ever. For out of Vichy, after weeks of rumor, came the most striking signs yet of French "collaboration" with Adolf Hitler, and suspicion sped through France that if Marshal Petain was still doggedly trying to pick up the French pieces, his aged fingers were now only fumbling...
Back & forth between Vichy and Paris shuttled Marshal Petain's dapper, middle-aged Vice Premier, Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan. At length Vichy announced that "certain easements" would presently take place between the Occupied and Unoccupied Zones. Hereafter Germany would charge France less for the support of the Nazi Army of Occupation, beginning with a reduction of from 400,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs a day. Generally speaking, the demarcation line would be opened for goods, cash, securities, and for people who wished to attend the sickness or burial of near relatives. Postcard correspondence would be permitted between...
...rebuttal Churchill observed: "It was the sort of speech with which I imagine the illustrious and venerable Marshal Petain might well have enlivened the closing days of the Reynaud Cabinet. ..." There was loud laughter at this jibe...