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...considered Vichyfrance a partner in, not a victim of, Japan's aggression. Unofficially, restaurants began calling Vichyssoise "De Gaulle soup." There was no question of U.S. "recognition" of Free France, since Free France is not a government, but General de Gaulle's chief civilian aide, tall, gaunt René Pleven, was urging aid under the Lend-Lease Act in order to convince Frenchmen in France that the U.S. is behind De Gaulle and his forces of liberation...
When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
...Morley last week explained that René de Chambrun was one of a series of speakers that also included British Novelist Phyllis Bentley "at the suggestion of Dr. Hotson." Furthermore, Dr. Morley said that Dr. Hotson asked for a raise soon after Dr. Morley arrived at Haverford last October, was refused, resigned last month. Dr. Reitzel, the president said, "informed me of his intention to resign" in October...
...France to help her to do so. In New York General de Gaulle's political representative, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, announced that the General would not recognize any infringement on French territory consented to by Vichy. In Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, De Gaullist General Edgard René Marie de Larminat accused Vichy of allowing the Germans to disorganize French North African possessions, declared that French aircraft factories were making war planes for Germany. In London Count Jacques de Sieyes, De Gaullist agent newly arrived from the U. S., announced: "The French people are not only starving, but absolutely ready...
...Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped to get him his appointment...