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VICHY--The Petain government of France tonight was reported to have accepted Adolf Hitler's terms for a permanent peace treaty and agreed to join a "Pan-European bloc" sought by the Axis powers as a means of forcing Britain...
...outside the Catholic Church. The Jesuits have been suppressed, at one time or another, in nearly every nation in which they have labored. Under political pressure from Spain, Portugal and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order in 1773. Pius VII revived it in 1814. Under Franco and Petain the Jesuits have been freed from decrees aimed against them by Republican Spain and France. Last January they were given permission to enter Greece for the first time since the 17th Century. Only country which now formally bars them is Switzerland...
Last week the Cabinet of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain issued its first decrees regulating commerce. In a batch of 46 laws, 26 decrees and 33 administrative orders-which for the first time in history caused a day's delay in publication of the Journal Officiel-boards of corporations were restricted to not more than twelve or fewer than three members. The president of a company must be an active participant in its management and president and board are personally liable for all the company's debts. All abuses of the capitalistic system, Finance Minister Marcel Yves Bouthillier said...
...nation still dazed by war, heading toward famine, and sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
...PETAIN, MARSHAL OF FRANCE." CHESTER D. HEYWOOD, Captain Company K 371st Infantry Worcester, Mass...