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...that of gold or liberal capitalism, which is that of America, and that of the service of the State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much...
Trials. On Aug. 8 at Riom, a quaint, forgotten town in Auvergne with grass-grown streets and stately derelict mansions, a new Supreme Court of Justice created by a Petain decree will convene "to search for and judge ... all those . . . who have during an undefined time committed crimes or misdemeanors or betrayed duties in their charge by acts that led to the passage from the state of peace to a state of war . . . and by acts which thereafter aggravated the consequences of the situation thus created." The Court, composed of five prominent French jurists, an admiral and a general...
...easy task will be that of special Attorney General O. Cassagnau, who will direct the prosecution, because unless his aim is extremely accurate, the denunciations he will hurl at the defendants may spatter Petain's Defense Minister Generalissimo Maxime Weygand, who commanded the Army during those final disastrous weeks, or even Marshal Petain himself, who was Daladier's Ambassador to Spain, Reynaud's Vice Premier. There were indications last week that the trial, coinciding with the U. S. Presidential election, might also be used at Nazi insistence to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Ambassador William...
...France intended to finance defeat became apparent when the Petain Government ordered the confiscation of the wealth and private property of Banker Baron Edouard de Rothschild and millionaire Importer Louis Louis-Dreyfus, who held two of the five great fortunes of France. A decree permitted the Government to revoke the citizenship and seize the property of persons who fled from France unless they return and provide "good reasons" for their flight. That Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, who arrived in the U. S. by Clipper with $1,000,000 worth of jewels in a little bag, would return to France...
...Norway after a 17,000-mile detour via Siberia and the Pacific; courtly, friendly Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, with his six children (they traveled on the U. S. cruiser Trenton, left the Grand Duchess in Lisbon); Genevieve Tabouis, fleeing from the Petain Government which had ordered her arrest...