Word: prouvost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...VERY GRATEFUL AND FLATTERED WONDERFUL WRITE-UP [TIME, JUNE 23]. WOULD BE HAPPY IF YOU COULD MAKE FOLLOWING RECTIFICATION*; PROUVOST WAS MY PUBLISHER, NOT COLLABORATOR, AND HE DID NOT WORK UNDER NAZIS BUT IN UNOCCUPIED ZONE. Pierre Lazareff Paris...
...Publisher Prouvost was Vichy Information Minister. Some people make a fine distinction between Vichy and the Nazis...
...statement that Paris-Soir Editor Lazareff "left Paris when the Germans arrived; his collaborator, Jean Prouvost, stayed on and worked under the Nazis...
...France, it was said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...