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...week. Their apologists swore they were not Fascists, but every effort they launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw our country into war although they knew we were...
...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...
More painful to Frenchmen almost than the loss of their freedom was the abolition of a time-honored prerogative to landowners of distilling their own hard liquor without paying excise to the Government. By decree the Petain Government achieved what other Governments had un successfully attempted since 1789. It outlawed home distilling, thereby in theory checking the scourge of alcoholism, reducing the contraband liquor trade and bringing a tidy excise sum into the national treasury...
...motor torpedo boat. The French captain was given five minutes to abandon ship. When he tried to signal his ship's name and nationality, the Germans cut him short with machine guns. Then came a torpedo. Down went the Meknès. Dead: 383. The Germans (and the Petain Government of France) blamed Britain for not notifying them to obtain safe passage for the Mekn...
Britain's plans stirred up rumors that Germany wants an uncensored airmail route between the Reich and the U. S. (In the summers of 1937 and 1938 Deutsche Lufthansa had made weekly experimental flights to New York.) From abroad also came reports of Nazi pressure on the Petain Government to carry out the plans of Air France Transatlantique which got CAA permission in May for experimental non-commercial flights to LaGuardia Field. Application by either Government for U. S. landing rights might well bring the first test of whether the U. S. is going to do business with Hitler...